But a realistic hopeful expectation that will most likely be fulfilled in 3 years worst case after Core 3 comes to market which will be about 2 years from now. This is a long term hope and dream for me, nothing substantiated by any sources. I think it will depend on how well the 45nm production process develops as to how soon Intel will feel confident they can put 4 mobile cores with 12-16 MB of L2 cache in one piece of 45nm silicon and still keep it cool and energy efficient. In other words, don't put any weight into my hopeful expectation for 4 cores in a mobile Mac by two years from now. I would just be as patient as possible before you have to pull the trigger for school in the fall of '07. We will all have to wait for the '07 WWDC next summer to tell what's going on for the mobile Macs then. I put a smillie after that sentence to indicate it was sort of a hopeful joke. Sorry for the certain tone of my mention. Obviously Intel is not going to project that possability until it knows it can do it sometime next year either possibly by end of 2007 or almost certainly by end of 2008. (Oh, and if I misinterpreted 4 cores to equal Quad core on a single processor, please clarify what you meant.)4 Mobile Cores In One MBP by end of 2007 Is An Expectation Not A Known Fact. I'm wondering where you heard this because I'm getting a MBP for college next summer and if there were quad core MBPs coming out in the fall I would wait. Harpertown, either a dual-core, 45 nm shrink of Woodcrest, or an eight-core, 45 nm MCM with 12 MiB L2ĭunnington, four to thirty-two cores, successor to Tigerton Woodcrest, first eighth-generation server and workstation chip, 65 nm, dual-core, 4 MiB L2 cache (Released on June 26, 2006)Ĭlovertown, quad-core MCM, consists of two Woodcrests, with 2 × 4 MiB L2 On the server-worstation front these are the planned processors coming next year and in 2008: Desktop 8 core processors with 12 MiB L2 cache - called Yorkfield are planned for next Spring 2007. In fact, I didn't even read of a desktop 4 core processor being released until let alone 2007 in a laptop.ĭesktop 4 core processors with 8 MiB L2 cache - called Kentsfield are now planned for release in 4th quarter of this year 2006. Any roadmaps i've read for intel, including that one you linked to (and the Tom's Hardware one) don't mention it. I was wondering where you heard that there is going to be a 4 core mobile version of Merom coming Fall '07.
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