Intel will begin producing its next-generation Penryn family of processors in the second half of this year. These new processors benefit from enhancements to the Intel Core microarchitecture and also 45nm technology which results in higher performance and more energy-efficient processors. Alongside Penryn, Intel annouced Nehalem CPUs, which will come in 2008.
“Six Penryn family processors, including dual and quad-core desktop processors and a dual core mobile processor are all under the Intel Core processor brand name as well as new dual and quad-core server processors under the Intel Xeon processor brand name. A processor for higher-end server multiprocessing systems is also under development,” Corporation says.
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