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MacBook Air may get new Penryn chips
News Adding one of the new Penryn chips to the MacBook Air could help improve performance for things such as video playback, noted by some as an issue with the early MacBook Air units. Engadget pointed out that Intel will probably have low-voltage and...
[August 15, 2008, 9:45]
Intel launches Penryn chips
News Just a few months after the launch of AMD's quad-core Barcelona chips, Intel is hitting back with Penryn, now known as the Xeon 5400 family of processors. A total of 15 server chips are set to launch on Monday, as well as a new Core 2 Extreme...
[November 12, 2007, 7:36]
Photos: Intel launches its 45nm chips
News Its new 45nm (nanometre) chips, named Penryn, use two long-sought innovations to increase performance while holding down power consumption. Intel plans to use the materials in its Penryn family of 45nm chips, due to ship later this year.
[January 30, 2007, 14:46]
Benchmarks: Intel's first 45nm Penryn chip review
Reviews Intel will announce further Penryn chips on 12 November. Compared with the previous generation of 65nm Core 2 processors, Penryn chips are manufactured with a 45-nanometre (nm) process. Dual-core Penryn processors, which are codenamed Wolfdale...
[November 11, 2007, 11:39]
Intel searching for next big thing
News So, expect to hear a lot of information about the Penryn chips, such as specifications, power consumption and benchmark projections. Chief executive Paul Otellini will get things going on Tuesday morning, and he's expected to preview Intel's...
[September 17, 2007, 17:19]
Intel readies Penryn processors
News Penryn is the code name for a family of desktop, notebook and server chips based on Intel's Core microarchitecture, and systems with the chips will be available at the end of the year. Intel is readying 11 new 45-nanometre Penryn processors for...
[August 23, 2007, 14:22]
Intel's two-way punch knocks out 45nm chips
News Intel is using its technological breakthrough — which involves two long-sought innovations to increase performance while holding down power consumption — to produce a new range of 45nm chips codenamed Penryn.
[January 30, 2007, 14:33]
CPU roadmap: 2008 and beyond review
Reviews Essentially a shrink of Core 2 Duo chips, Penryn includes a few enhancements; one such upgrade, SSE 4.0 instructions, will (according to Intel) improve the performance of multimedia applications. Its Phenom chips have done nothing to change the...
[April 22, 2008, 16:07]
CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond review
Reviews Q4 2007 nm Penryn platform with quad-core Yorkfield chips and dual-core Wolfdale chips Penryn mobile chips and Montevina mobile platform Essentially a shrink of Core 2 Duo chips, Penryn includes a few enhancements; one such upgrade, SSE 4.0...
[March 19, 2007, 16:12]
Intel's Nehalem to reintroduce hyperthreading
News But before then, it plans to introduce Penryn chips as the first processors to use that new manufacturing technology. Penryn chips will come in several different core combinations, just like the current generation of Core chips.
[March 29, 2007, 8:53]
AMD reveals Barcelona's strengths
News Intel did announce several performance results for Penryn chips at its Intel Developer Forum in Beijing last month, but those were preliminary results that have not been published by a benchmarking organisation, an Intel representative said.
[May 22, 2007, 10:58]
Intel finalises design of Penryn chip
News Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometre (nm) chip that will be out toward the end of next year. The company is also in the midst of making its first Penryn samples. The Penryn news underscores Intel's expertise in manufacturing.
[November 30, 2006, 8:43]
IDF goes beyond chips
News This is a whole wafer of Intel Penryn chips, set to come out this year. Penryn chips are made on the 45nm (nanometre) process, which means the chips are smaller and faster than current chips built on the 65nm process.
[September 21, 2007, 15:48]
Good work Negroponte
Talkback Intel are making a killing with their Core 2 range and are probably going to repeat this with their Penryn and Nehalem chips, they are also spending vast sums on r&d to get the next 32nm stuff off the drawing board.
[January 16, 2008, 23:56]
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 review
Reviews It's the first of what's sure to be a flood of Intel 'Penryn' chips manufactured with a more power-efficient 45-nanometre (nm) method. You would still be reasonable to wait for Intel's 2008 'tock' chips, or even AMD's forthcoming quad-core chips...
[October 29, 2007, 15:05]
Intel close to quad-core Tigerton launch
News Later this year, Intel will refresh its quad-core processors for two-way servers with the launch of the Penryn chips. Tigerton is a quad-core server processor designed for servers with four or more chips that is part of an overall platform code...
[August 29, 2007, 11:47]
Intel launches quad-core Tigerton
News Rumour has it that Intel will announce its second generation of quad-core chips, code-named "Penryn", in November, while rival AMD's first 65nm quad-core server chip, the much-delayed Barcelona, is expected to arrive next week.
[September 5, 2007, 12:06]
A guide to server efficiency review
Reviews Intel's 45nm 'Penryn' processors (above), due in 2007/8, will be followed by even more power-efficient 32nm chips. Which is why it’s worth looking for additional power management features built into the chips involved.
[June 5, 2007, 7:53]
AMD unveils Barcelona at last
News There are rumours circulating that Intel will announce in November its second generation of quad-core chips — code-named "Penryn" — based on its 45nm manufacturing process. The high-performance Opterons, together with higher frequencies of the...
[September 11, 2007, 8:36]
Visions of China
Blog The Penryn/Wolfdale/Hapertown technology will get its time in the limelight. Expect announcements about ultra-low power chips to get back into the portable, hand-held market Intel abdicated when it flogged off the XScale to Marvell.
[April 12, 2007, 18:31]
