Intel says goodbye to Pentium
The 13 year old name in the PC arena, Pentium is finally bidding farewell as Intel shifts to new nomenclature for its next generation dual-core processors. The step is also being seen as an effort to stop company’s ever eroding market share to its nearest competitor, AMD.
The new processors, named “Core 2 Duo” are expected to hit stores in a few months. The new name will be used for desktop processors based on the “Conroe” chips and for notebook processors based on the “Merom” chip. The two processors would be similar in performance, and power consumption will be the only thing putting them apart, with Conroe chips consuming more power.
The two chips were introduced last year, and the new versions are expected to be launched in a couple of months. The company which boasts of 80% market share in the pc arena, is worried about its competitor, AMD which has been eating into its market share and has come a long way from an unknown name in the industry to gaining a respectable 20 percent market share. AMD made major inroads into in the year gone by with its Opteron and Athlon range of processors.
For the first time Intel has incorporated power consumption into its model numbers. For example, the Core 2 Duo E6800 processor would represent a dual-core Core-architecture processor that consumes between 55 watts and 75 watts of power. Merom and Conroe are both based on 65nm process designs with shared L2 cache and aggressive power management. Conroe and Merom will both be backwards compatible with recently manufactured desktop and mobile motherboards.
Over the last year Intel has put increasing emphasis on its platform brands, such as Centrino for notebooks, Viiv for entertainment PCs and vPro for business PCs. But the company will continue to emphasize the individual processor brands, Intel spokesman, Kircos said. "I think you'll see equal amounts of marketing around the processor and platform brands," he added.
Intel executives said in March the Conroe will deliver 40 percent better performance and consume 40 percent less power. During the past few years, power efficiency has emerged as a key selling point, as the costs of powering computers and keeping them cool have grown.
According to sources, mobile chip, Meron will be offered as T5000 (2 MB L2 cache) and T7000 (4 MB L2 cache) series, while Conroe will be named E4000 (FSB800) and E6000 (FSB1066) series. The letters in the sequence number indicate the thermal design power (TDP) of the processor: "T" is used for a range of 25 to 49 watts and "E" for 50 watts or greater.
The new processors, named “Core 2 Duo” are expected to hit stores in a few months. The new name will be used for desktop processors based on the “Conroe” chips and for notebook processors based on the “Merom” chip. The two processors would be similar in performance, and power consumption will be the only thing putting them apart, with Conroe chips consuming more power.
The two chips were introduced last year, and the new versions are expected to be launched in a couple of months. The company which boasts of 80% market share in the pc arena, is worried about its competitor, AMD which has been eating into its market share and has come a long way from an unknown name in the industry to gaining a respectable 20 percent market share. AMD made major inroads into in the year gone by with its Opteron and Athlon range of processors.
For the first time Intel has incorporated power consumption into its model numbers. For example, the Core 2 Duo E6800 processor would represent a dual-core Core-architecture processor that consumes between 55 watts and 75 watts of power. Merom and Conroe are both based on 65nm process designs with shared L2 cache and aggressive power management. Conroe and Merom will both be backwards compatible with recently manufactured desktop and mobile motherboards.
Over the last year Intel has put increasing emphasis on its platform brands, such as Centrino for notebooks, Viiv for entertainment PCs and vPro for business PCs. But the company will continue to emphasize the individual processor brands, Intel spokesman, Kircos said. "I think you'll see equal amounts of marketing around the processor and platform brands," he added.
Intel executives said in March the Conroe will deliver 40 percent better performance and consume 40 percent less power. During the past few years, power efficiency has emerged as a key selling point, as the costs of powering computers and keeping them cool have grown.
According to sources, mobile chip, Meron will be offered as T5000 (2 MB L2 cache) and T7000 (4 MB L2 cache) series, while Conroe will be named E4000 (FSB800) and E6000 (FSB1066) series. The letters in the sequence number indicate the thermal design power (TDP) of the processor: "T" is used for a range of 25 to 49 watts and "E" for 50 watts or greater.
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