45 nm processor was introduced by Intel in Moscow

In the 12 of December, in Moscow Intel conducted a press-conference under the name "Mission 45". The primary purpose of measure consisted in presentation of wide audience of journalists of Penryn 45 nm processors. A basic lecture was conducted by Dmitry Konash, regional director Intel in Russia and countries of the CIS.

In the nearest 3 months Intel would like to transfer all on new Tec process. However only 16 models are accessible now: 12 4-cores chips of Intel Xeon series 5400, 2-cores Xeon of series 5200 and one 4-cores Intel Core 2 Extreme, positioned to the market of the productive desktop systems. More accessible table processors of Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo, and also their mobile analogues, will enter sale in the first quarter of next year. But that new does offer to the users the Penryn 45 nm processors, except new transistors? Above all things — it growing on 50% the second level cash-memory. In junior models its volume will be made by 3 MBytes, in 2-cores chips are 6 MBytes, and in 4-cores.

Besides it the set of additional instructions of SSE4, applied today during work with multimedia, games and other applications, was exposed to the improvement. Alex Rogachkov, technical specialist Intel, showed considerable growth of fast-acting on the new processor of Penryn by comparison to the predecessor on the example of encoding of video in the format of MPEG4 by the codec of DIVX. Dmitry Konash (on the left) and Konstantin Pikiner (on the right), captain of command Virtus.pro. Were not forgotten playing applications, and also other programs. On claims of Intel difference in the productivity between 45 and by 65 nm processors, having practically identical descriptions) makes from 5% to 10%. Thus the cost of similar models remains former.

Konstantin Pikiner, captain of command Virtus.pro, participating in many playing competitions and coming out from there Victor, showed possibilities of new 4-nucleus chips of Intel on the example of new game of Crysis.

Some words about future

The Intel development strategy conditionally named "tick-tock". It means considerable changes at the microprocessors market every year. According to this strategy Production Tec process will be change every two year, and new processor architectures will introduce. The first will be on even years and the second on even odd years. So 45 hm Tec process was introduced in 2007. Nehalem architecture processors will introduce next year.

Some words about Nehalem. We described the main possibilities in one of our articles. Now we’d like to introduce some words about Nehalem from Intel official documents. New architecture will supply following possibilities:

• Dynamic manage of the processor nucleus, calculating flows, cash-memory, interfaces and power supply;
• Possibility to handle 4 commands for 1 tact cycle in Intel Core micro architecture (other processors handle only 3 or less commands for one cycle);
• Parallel flow handling (Intel Hyper-Threading technology) which provides the productivity rise and power consumption decreasing;
• Architecture expansion with innovational commands Intel SSE4 and ATA;
• Highly productive multilevel cash-memory;
• High capacity memory and system productivity;
• Dynamic power supply management with increasing the productivity;
• Productivity scalability from 1 to 16 (and more) flows and from 1 to 8 (and more) processor nucleus;
• Salable customizable intersystem combination and integrative memory controllers;
• High-productive integrative graphic processor for client platforms.

What, much of this list were predicted a year ago. Although so far not clear, whether Nehalem will become by something new, as one time Pentium 4 became, or Core architecture situation will repeat which was developed on the basis of P6, initially created for CPU Pentium Pro. Less than a year needs to wait to know everything. But, we are sure; Intel will not let down us.