June 2nd, 2005
Intel Claims New Dual Core “Yonah” Chip Will Offer Crazy-Fast Performance in Notebooks
Oh I’m sorry, I thought you said Yoda… Intel is back with another weird code named CPU, this time to replace the popular and actually quite good mobile processor, the Pentium M series. Here’s more from the gang at news.com:
“Yonah, a notebook chip coming from Intel in the first part of next year, is going to be a lot different than its predecessors, company executives say. The chip, which will be made on the 65-nanometer process, will come with a number of enhancements over the current Pentium M line of notebook chips, Mooly Eden, vice president of the mobility group, said at a briefing here.
“For one thing, it will contain two cores, instead of the single core on current notebook chips. The two separate cores will also share a 2MB cache. Current dual-core desktop chips from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel come with similar sized caches, but each core accesses only 1MB of cache memory dedicated to it. Sharing the cache will significantly boost performance. (The chips communicate with the cache through a single bus embedded in the chip.)
‘”When I speak of dual cores, I am not talking about a 10 percent to 20 percent improvement in performance. I am speaking about something crazy,” Eden said. A single-core version of Yonah will also come out for budget notebooks.” Source: News.com
Alice says: Buy it you will.
David says:
This dual-core implementation that Intel is talking about with Yonah is what already exists in the Athlon 64 X2’s and dual-core Opterons.
See here: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2397&p=2
It does offer insane speed when implemented in this way. In fact, a single dual-core Opteron running at the same clockspeed as two single-core Opterons will frequently score better even though you technically have the same number of cores operating at the same frequency. For example, an Opteron 175 runs at the same speed as a 248 (2.2Ghz). The only difference is that a 175 has two cores instead of one. However, when pairing two 248’s you have the same number of cores (same amount of cache too). Now with that in mind, take a look at this benchmark of 3DStudio Max. The dual-core Opteron outscores its equivalent dual-CPU counterpart:
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/opteron-x75/index.x?pg=7
In this particular benchmark a dual-core Opteron is about 84% faster than a single-core Opteron.
AMD’s also got a dual-core Turion coming out (I suspect around the time Yonah does). The Yonah won’t be 64-bit from what I hear, though (http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050412_180854.html).
June 2nd, 2005 at 5:37 pm
Sean says:
One day people will realize that all these processors with the wierd names have all been made by the same Israeli design team and therefore they all have biblical names.
June 2nd, 2005 at 7:07 pm
David says:
lol
June 2nd, 2005 at 7:38 pm
Artie See says:
Most of Intel’s low power chips are designed in Israel, so expect even more Hebrew names. Yonah = Jonah.
Israel has few natural resources; one way they compensate is by emphazing high-tech, which requires a lot of brain power but relatively little raw materials.
June 4th, 2005 at 9:28 am