Intel’s Penryn On The Way

Today Intel is announcing a number of details on its 45nm process node, including official details on the first family of 45nm processors due out later this year. The announcements themselves, as you will soon see, are impressive enough but arguably more interesting is the amount of detail Intel is giving away at this point. In the past we’ve had to go to sources other than official Intel channels for this sort of information, but that has all changed with the new Intel.

Included with these new 45nm chips is an updated transistor designed to decrease current leakage. As amazing as Conroe has proven to be, it’s going to be great to see 45nm surface with performance results. Promised are higher frequencies of course, but thanks to the smaller process it will result in lower voltages and temperature as well.

Source: AnandTech