Intel Penryn to Improve Laptop’s Performance and Battery Life

Intel Corporation has announced that it will begin producing 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 Intel’s 45nm technology, providing higher CPU performance and better energy-efficiency, especially in notebook computers.

Six Penryn family processors will include dual core laptop-use processors and dual and quad-core desktop CPUs under the Intel Core brand name, as well as Xeon server CPUs.

The mobile Penryn processors will have a new advanced power management state called Deep Power Down Technology that significantly reduces the power of the processor during idle periods, extending battery life in laptops. Also, the chip maker has enhanced the Intel Dynamic Acceleration Technology available in current Intel Core 2 processors.

“This feature (Dynamic Acceleration Technology) uses the power headroom freed up when a core is made inactive to boost the performance of another still active core. Imagine a shower with two powerful water shower heads, when one shower head is turned off, the other has increased water pressure (performance),” Intel explains.

The Penryn processors will have larger cache size and higher clock speeds within existing power and thermal envelope, as well as improved performance of instructions related to content creation, imaging, video and high-performance computing.

Intel has also announced next-generation Nehalem microarchitecture slated for initial production in 2008. Along with increased speed and power efficiency, the Nahalem processor family will include CPUs with an integrated graphics engine, according to Intel.

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