It doesnt take much time for today’s latest technology to become too late for tomorrow. In terms of CPU, intel is trying to satisfy your hunger for power by constantly adding cores to their processors. Lately announced quad and hexa core processors definitely hold a promise in this field. I had the feeling that dual core penryn will stay a while and after that only intel will come up with some announcement, but it happened the opposite. You must have read my article on Quad core CPU and Core 2 extreme too.

Quad core chips for Laptop

Intel said that it will ship quad-core chips designed specifically for laptops later this year. The chip will be released after Intel’s Centrino 2 platform, code-named Montevina, is launched in the second quarter. Montevina is an upgrade to the current Centrino mobile platform that puts WiMax and Wi-Fi networking capabilities on a single chip. Montevina will include processors based on the Core 2 microarchitecture and the quad-core notebook processor could be included in the platform.

The only drawback is that these power hungry chips will eat up the laptop battery as fast as possible and before feeling the actual power you feel the battery power running low. Mac book air fans might have to wait much longer as these chips wont be available on small sized laptops.

I know some guys are again gonna postpone their laptop purchae.

6 Core Dunnington

Dunnington is “the first IA (Intel Architecture) processor with 6-cores, is based on the 45nm high-k process technology, and has large shared caches.”

Nehalem

Nehalem is Intel’s “dynamically scalable” new processor microarchitecture which’ll bring “dramatic performance and energy improvements” to Intel’s chips. The platform will scale from two to eight cores, and eventually from “notebooks to servers.” That’s the scalable part, so you’ll see it everywhere. Simultaneous Multi-Threading will let each core run two threads at once, plus it quadruples the memory-bandwidth of the current top-o’-the-line Xeons. It’s also got an 8MB level-3 cache, Quickpath interconnects (up to 25.6GB per second), integrated memory controller (AMD what?) and supports up to DDR3-1333 memory.

Please check out intel for more details.