Intel Arrandale High Performance for the masses. Cheaper Smaller Faster Better Laptops. #IDF
I was briefly at Intel IDF conference last week in San Francisco. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend the keynotes or the demo pit. I did look into Intel's CPU and GPU road map in the near future. Basically if you want a high performance and longer battery life, wait till end of this year or early next year.
IDF 2009 was about Nahalem and a lot of cool stuff Intel is working on. Nahalem (new architecture) has been available for the desktop line for some time now and I have been patiently waiting to hear about their portable plans.
Welcome Arrandale, Nahalem for laptops. Arrandale is 32nm variant of Nahalem, there are going to be bunch of different versions. From 2 cores to all the way to 4 cores (8 threads) on a single die (cpu). Thats pretty amazing. Because of the shrink (45nm to 32nm), the new CPUs will consume less power (See Moors Law) and are going to be cheaper to produce.
One More thing.
Arrandale is going to have another die on the same package. A 45nm integrated graphics processor on the same chip.
This means the processor (CPU) and the graphics (GPU) are going to be on the same package. This means Cheaper, smaller, faster better laptops.
All I can say is I am super excited. I am waiting to buy the new Macbook Pro/AIR. I am going to have to hold on until Apple refreshes the new laptops with these babies (2009 4Q or Q1 2010). With these CPUs the new Laptops should have longer battery life, potentially skinnier and cheaper (at-least for apple).
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