Wasn't sure if this belonged in the Lounge or Power Mac forum...
Today at its bi-annual developer conference (IDF), Intel officially unveiled the details of its next-generation mobile, desktop, and server processors shipping in the second-half of 2006.
The processors included the next-generation version of the Core Duo known as "Merom" -- a processor with identical battery life to the Duo, but with 20% greater performance and support for 64-bit execution. Merom is slated to ship this fall.
Intel also unveiled two next-generation processors for the desktop which will replace the Pentium 4. The first was "Conroe", which will use 40% less power than Intel's current top-of-the-line P4, but offer 40% greater performance. Intel claims "Conroe" will be 20% faster than any chip available from the competition (AMD) in 2006. Conroe is slated to ship this summer.
The second chip unveiled for the desktop was "Kentsfield", which integrates two Conroes onto a single chip (4-core processor) using less power than some of today's P4 processors. A server version of of the chip, dubbed "Clovertown," was also shown in a dual processor configuration (8 cores!) running a multithreaded game.
Anand's first articles on the conference (still in progress) are here:
General info:
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2711
Benchmarks:
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2712
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