Intel won't launch 45nm desktop CPUs until 2008?
By Tony Smith
Intel may claim its 45nm processors will be in production in H2, but it appears desktop chips may not actually launch until Q1 2008, if the latest roadmap to leak out of the chip giant is to be believed.
Intel has two 45nm CPUs in the pipeline: 'Yorkfield', the sucessor to today's four-core Core 2 Extreme and Core 2 Quad, and 'Wolfdale', the future Core 2 Duo. According to a roadmap published by Japanese-language site PCWatch, all both chips do not appear until Q1 2008.
Yorkfield and Wolfdale are derived from 'Penryn', Intel's 45nm Core 2 architecture. It's not only a die-shrink of the 65nm 'Conroe', but incorporates a variety of architectural tweaks and introduces SSE4 instructions. It's also been suggested the chip re-enables HyperThreading, missing from Intel's main desktop processors since the Pentium era.
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Intel won't launch 45nm desktop CPUs until 2008?
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