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Inside Intel's Penryn review
Reviews Like all new processors, Intel's Penryn is a mixture of novel ideas and older, established designs. In Penryn's case, the mix leans heavily towards the latter; the processor is, at heart, the same as the previous Core 2 chip — just shrunk to fit...
[November 12, 2007, 7:24]
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]
Benchmarks: Intel's first 45nm Penryn chip review
Reviews On 29 October 2007, Intel took the wraps off the first of its Penryn family of processors. Intel will announce further Penryn chips on 12 November. Penryn The Penryn architecture is a development of Intel's current Core technology.
[November 11, 2007, 11:39]
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]
MacBook Air may get new Penryn chips
News Phone News has reported that the MacBook Air will get a new Penryn chip that will improve performance at the cost of battery life. Adding one of the new Penryn chips to the MacBook Air could help improve performance for things such as video...
[August 15, 2008, 9:45]
Intel readies Penryn processors
News Intel is readying 11 new 45-nanometre Penryn processors for launch in the first quarter, according to industry reports. Intel started talking in detail about Penryn in November last year, and it demonstrated the processors in January.
[August 23, 2007, 14:22]
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]
Intel unveils new chipsets
News The new chipsets are needed to accommodate Intel's Penryn generation of processors that it expects to release in the second half of the year. It needs new designs this time around because the Penryn processors, which use a new, smaller...
[June 5, 2007, 9:49]
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]
End of the show...
Blog Penryn - Intel's next big processor upgrade. Nehalem - Penryn's successor. That may not matter for the intended market for Menlow, which is "PC compatible" pocket devices capable of running Vista or Linux or (ahem) OS X, but it still leaves that...
[April 18, 2007, 21:06]
Intel searching for next big thing
News Chief executive Paul Otellini will get things going on Tuesday morning, and he's expected to preview Intel's upcoming Penryn generation of processors, which will use a new, smaller 45nm (nanometre) manufacturing technology (due later this year).
[September 17, 2007, 17:19]
CPU roadmap: 2008 and beyond review
Reviews Key elements of the new platform will be Penryn processors — some with a 1,066MHz front-side bus — and such graphics improvements as broader DirectX 10 and Blu-ray support. Where Penryn was Intel's move to increased power efficiency, Nehalem, which...
[April 22, 2008, 16:07]
CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond review
Reviews According to more than one report, Penryn will form the centerpiece of Intel's updated Centrino platform, code-named Montevina. Q4 2007 nm Penryn platform with quad-core Yorkfield chips and dual-core Wolfdale chips
[March 19, 2007, 16:12]
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]
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 But soon after AMD's Barcelona arrives, Intel will launch its Penryn processors, which are expected to be a significant improvement once again over the current generation. Allen said he couldn't project Barcelona's performance against Penryn, since...
[May 22, 2007, 10:58]
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 QX6850 review
Reviews If we have reservations about purchasing Intel's new CPU now, it's that Intel has a next-generation chip architecture (codenamed Penryn) coming out at the end of the year. Penryn also marks Intel's move to a new 45-nanometer manufacturing process...
[July 18, 2007, 16:27]
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]
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. Intel's new Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core CPU represents that 'tick'.
[October 29, 2007, 15:05]
