Silverthorne contributor : Media&Entertainment Vertical Initiative (MphasiS Software Services) What is Silverthorne?
Intel Silverthorne is a brand new Intel x86 processor for the Menlow platform developed from the ground up for low-cost and ultra-low power applications. This includes UMPC (Ultra Mobile PCs), MID (Mobile Internet Devices), set-top applications, some embedded applications, and eventually for smart phone applications though this initial generation may not be suitable yet. Its small 25mm^2 die size on a 45nm process allows 2500 chips to fit on a single 300mm diameter wafer allows for extremely economic production. Some more info: In a press briefing, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner said that Silverthorne is still on track to ship in the first half of this year. The low-power processor is designed to be compatible with the Core 2 Duo instruction set and gets down into the 2 watt to 0.6 watt power range. It is assumed that Silverthorne's power needs are about 15 times lower than the company's lowest-power dual-core processor. And Rattner said the performance is in the range of the early Centrino processors. "It's quite respectable performance for a processor this little," he added. Further References http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=987&tag=nl.e539 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=12&articleId=9060659&intsrc=hm_topic 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
