Nehalem for notebooks by the end of 2009

While Intel prepares itself for November's Core i7 launch, the first rumors on a mobile version of the quadcore chip have already appeared. Intel reports that the notebook version, codenamed Clarksfield, won't be taken into production until the second half of 2009

It's still unclear whether this date concerns the production of test versions, or the mass production of the final processor. This makes it impossible to say whether the CPU's will be released in the third or the fourth quarter of next year. Like the desktop version, this mobile Core i7 processor will be produced at 45nm and will feature an integrated DDR3 memory controller and advanced energy management. Whether the triple-channel DDR3 feature will make it to the notebooks isn't known yet.

Nehalem will be available for notebooks by the end of 2009

The new quadcore Clarksfield will be the base of the new Centrino platform, which is labeled on the roadmap as Calpella. This new processor will also require another chipset, the most likely being a mobile version of the still to be introduced P55 chipset.
When the Centrino platform was last updated, Intel introduced two 45nm quadcores for notebooks, so it's likely these will last until the mobile Core i7 is ready to follow them up.

Source: PC World

Mainstream Nehalem: Lynnfield comparison photo revealed

JC at Xfastest posted some comparison photos of the yet-to-come mainstream Nehalem CPU, the Lynnfield and sever model Gainestown.

Lynnfield is scheduled to launch in Q4 2009. This version of Nehalem uses Socket LGA1160. Rather than the high end QPI link, Lynnfield sticks on DMI link, and only supports dual channel DDR3 memory.

(DMI, Direct Media Interface is Intel’s Northbridge-Southbridge link. Currently it is used on all Intel mobos. But in next gen mainstream mobo DMI will become the link between CPU and southbridge.)

From left to right: Lynnfield, Yorkfield, Gainestown

PCB is obviously bigger than the LGA775 Yorkfield.

The back Intel Nehalem

[Pics via：Xfastest]

Intel delays Nehalem CPUs with integrated graphics

Those looking forward to constructing a PC around Intel's Nehalem-based mainstream platforms might need to go back to the drawing board as the Larabee builder has decided to delay the release of its Havendale processors. Expected to be launched together with the Lynnfield processors in Q3 2009, the Socket 1160 Havendale CPUs, which feature integrated graphics, are now scheduled to enter production in Q4 2009 and hit the stores in early Q1 2010.

The delay is also affecting Havendale's mobile-prone brothers, the Auburndale CPUs and this should be great news for AMD as it is planning to introduce its IGP-loaded Swift chips in the second half of 2009. Now bring on those Bloomfields. source

AMD trying to catch up with Intel by realeasing low-power Phenom CPU by the end of 2008

AMD is trying to take back some parts of the CPU market. While Intel is on its way to release the new Nehalem processors, AMD is planning to launch some low-power triple-corequad-core processors at the end this year. These chips are expected to come with a TDP of 65W. From the performance point of view, AMD's new processors are far from Intel's latest CPUs, but they will certainly provide a good performance/price ratio, as is already customary with all AMD chips.

AMD is set on releasing two low-power triple-core Phenom processors, named X3 8250e and 8450e respectively, with core frequencies of 1.9GHz and 2.1GHz, respectively, and both will have an L2 cache of 1.5MB and L3 cache of 2MB. The two CPUs are expected to enter DVT this summer, in July, while mass production for the new AMD CPUs is due to start at the beginning of August.

Meanwhile, AMD is expected to launch the low-power quad-core Phenom X4 9350e in the third quarter of this year. Two other models will follow in the fourth quarter and the first quarter of 2009, which is when AMD will start rolling out its 45nm quad-core CPUs (Propus), targeting core frequencies between 2.3-2.6 GHz.

Sources claim that AMD is determined to have the Phenom X4 9850 (2.5GHz) and the 9950 (2.6GHz) enter DVT in the third quarter, and ship in the following three months. The company is also to launching two 45nm Phenom X4 CPUs by the end of the fourth quarter, both of them with core frequencies between 2.4-2.8GHz.

Unfortunatellu AMD did not make any official statement regarding the new CPU lineup.

Intel and Nvidia At War

Sure, Nvidia's crashing into the mobile market Intel wants to dominate. And Intel is running into discrete graphics (not to mention ruling with integrated graphics). But you know, it's friendly right? Wrong. It's total war. Nvidia's continuing to hold out licensing SLI support for Intel's boards, notably its next-gen Tylersburg chipset for the Nehalem CPUs. And Intel hasn't yet licensed Nvidia to make an nForce chipset that'll support Nehalem, citing a "disagreement" over the terms. If they don't make nice, gamers will have to pick between having SLI or the latest and greatest Intel processors, meaning they get screwed either way. Man, where's AMD when you need them? [Maximum PC]

Intel plans Q3 Core 2 Quad, Duo line-up shuffle

What does Intel have on its near-term desktop processor roadmap? More of the same, it seems, in the period leading up to Q4's introduction of its next-gen CPU design, 'Nehalem'.

The latest leaks coming out of Asia point to Q3 introductions of faster Core 2 Quads and Duos. The quarter will apparently see the debut of the 3GHz Q9650, the 2.66GHz Q9400, the 3.33GHz E8600 and the 2.66GHz E7300.

They'll be priced at $530, $266, $266 and $133, respectively.

All three introductions will see existing processors come down in price to make room for the new parts. Some CPUs will get pushed off the list as a result: the 65nm Q6700, and the 45nm Q9450 and Q9300 will be dropped from the four-core range, while the E8300 will be excised from the two-core list too.
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