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The planned launch of Intel’s Penryn processors on Monday is the first blow in a one-two punch that might stagger AMD heading into 2008.

Just a few months after the launch of AMD’s quad-core Barcelona chips, Intel is hitting back with Penryn, now known as the Xeon 5400 family of processors. A total of 15 server chips are set to launch Monday as well as a new Core 2 Extreme desktop processor, with Penryn chips for mainstream desktops and notebooks scheduled to launch in the first quarter of next year.

Penryn is essentially a shrink of the Core architecture that brought Intel out of the woods in 2006. But these are also the company’s first chips to use Intel’s 45-nanometer manufacturing technology, and they will usher in the first change to the basic properties of the transistor since the 1960s.

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What you may expect from Phenom x4 and Yorkfield

From the final result, Phenom only lose QX6850 about 5.5%. But the CPU Score is losing 9.11% . If the rival change to QX9650, the gap will even bigger. If we compare to other subitem, that dual core E6850 will boost Graphic system better than Phenom X4. Comparing to Phenom X4 and E6850, All the advantage score are coming from the CPU score. Phenom X4 does bad in HDR and SM subitem tests.

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Though many leaks of the product have been circulating for some time, Intel officially took the wraps off and launched their new X38 Express chipset for the high-end desktop motherboard market.

With this launch, the Intel desktop chipset line-up gets a new flagship. Intel’s new X38 chipset encompasses all of the technology advances that have made the P35 a success and adds a slew of new features designed to increase memory and graphics subsystem performance, like PCI Express 2.0 SerDes and Intel Extreme Memory technology in the new X38 MCH. The Asus motherboard tested by HotHardware even features an embedded Linux-based OS that boots in a matter a seconds.

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Even though there are not a lot of single-core chips in Intel’s microprocessor lineup now, quad-core processors are not going to become really affordable soon enough.

After Intel introduces its new 45nm central processing units in January, 2008, the company will not cut pricing of its Intel Core 2 Quad below $266.

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New processor, new price and new logo, starting from $163.

We have known that Intel’s first 45nm processor will be available on November 11 2007. The first one hit the market will be quad-core only: Yorkfield for desktop and Harpertown for server. To distinguish with the current 65nm product line, Intel will use a new naming schema for the 45nm processors: quad-core Yorkfield will be QX/Q9xxx and dual core Wolfdale is E8xxx.

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Nvidia Corp is rolling out motherboard chipsets with integrated GPU for Intel processors

Nvidia is expected to say on Tuesday that its new GeForce chips for desktop PCs give the performance of an entry-level separate graphics processor unit, as compared to traditional integrated graphics chips such as those made by Intel.

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Intel’s largest architecture overhaul in decades is less than a year away, “Nehalem”, the next-gen 45nm native quad-core is still in Socket 775.

It wasn’t that long ago that predictions of doom and gloom pinned Intel between a rock and a hard place.  The company’s NetBurst architecture didn’t scale and its Itanium architecture didn’t sell; it looked as if for the first time in history, Moore’s Law was in serious jeopardy. 

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Anandtech tested Intel’s new 45nm processor, codename Penryn today. On average, Wolfdale ends up being just under 5% faster clock-for-clock than Conroe. It will simply make competing more difficult for AMD’s Phenom, but not impossible. The test is based on an Engineering Sample Penryn running at 2.33GHz(333×7) and Anandtech manages OCing it to 3.22GHz(460×7) on default 1.152v voltage.

After Intel’s price cuts, CPUs had gotten too affordable to pass up building a system now if you needed. Now that we have a general idea of clock-for-clock performance differences between Conroe and Wolfdale, we’re not nearly as worried about recommending that you build systems today as we once were. There’s no doubt that Wolfdale is faster clock-for-clock, but keep in mind that you won’t see Wolfdale until Q1 of next year and the performance advantage simply isn’t great enough to justify delaying a purchase by 6+ months if you need a system now.

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