Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Intel: Plenty o' News from the IDF

A lot of info is starting to stream out of IDF (courtesy News.com as they have a concise article.) Short takes follow:

A dual-core Atom is coming, but only for the "Nettop"/thin client segment. Intel doesn't feel that it's power-efficient enough for the "Netbook" mobile market.

A 6-core Dunnington Xeon is planned as Penryn's siren song.

Roadmaps for Nehalem are starting to get fleshed out, with on-die video options and an 8-core version announced.

And this is all before next week's nVidia announcements! Biggest rumor? nVidia breaks into the x86 market...

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