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The processor Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 with four cores at 2.53GHz was announced as an upgrade of $ 1,390 for portable Dreambook Style 9008 Pioneer Computers. Reflecting the expected position of the chip at the top of the mobile product line from Intel, the cost of the upgrade is more than the base price of a laptop that costs $ 1,399.

The quad core chip is not listed in the most recent list price of Intel and will be the first of four mobile processor cores of the company, brings 12M bytes cached according to Pioneer.

Notebooks based on quad core chips are not currently available, but can be sent to consumers within one to two weeks, said a sales representative from Pioneer.

Intel refused to comment of portable quad core chip, with a spokesman saying that the company does not comment on an “unannounced product.”

While Intel has already launched the QX9300, the chip is listed on a roadmap of products developed by Intel India and available on the website of the company.

The QX9300 is the only portable four cores processor on the roadmap, which includes other chips unadvertised, such as the chip for laptop dual-core Core 2 Extreme X9100 at 3.06GHz and the chip for desktop computers with dual core; Core 2 Duo Q9650 to 3GHz. The roadmap does not list dates for when these chips will be available.

This is not the first time that Pioneer Computers has offered an advance of the products coming from Intel. In April, the company leaked details of processors that are part of the package ahead of Centrino 2 mobile processors.

Intel Corporation has announced its new processor technology Intel Centrino 2 for laptops that have five new Intel Core 2 Duo processors.

Intel also introduced the mobile processor with two cores Intel Core 2 Extreme, a unit that operates at a speed of 3.06 GHz, as has been evaluated in the comparative SPECint rate base2006.

Known so far with the code name Montevina, Intel Centrino 2 technology and Intel Centrino 2 vPro technology improves aspects of the major benefits it can offer a notebook, including its performance and battery life, thanks to new processors and chipsets, a faster wireless technology that meets the specifications of the draft 802.11n standard (WiMAX technology will come along later this year in the United States) and business-like capabilities to improve the management teams.

“When we present Intel Centrino technology in 2003, there were only a few points of Wi-Fi wireless access and services YouTube and social environments did not even exist, for ‘thin and light’ we referred to the objectives related weight, and sales of desktops exceeded by a wide margin to the laptop”, said Mooly Eden, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s Mobile Platforms Group for the company. “Currently, sales of laptops exceed those of desktops in the U.S., opening the way to enjoy entertainment in high definition, better networked games, higher speeds on wide band wireless technologies and facilitating the use of techniques easier and safer to allow companies manage, update and repair their fleets of laptops.”

Intel will introduce five processors with dual-core based on Intel reinvented transistors (metal door with high-k) and an advanced manufacturing process from 45 nanometers. These processors have a bus (FBS) faster than 1066MHz and an L2 cache of up to 6MB.

Intel also unveiled its Mobile Intel chipset 45 Express and the number of wireless technology Intel WiFi Link 5000, which are already been delivered to customers in laptops available in late July and during August.

The solid state drives are ultra-fast storage units that, unlike conventional hard drives, have no moving components and thus are based on memory rather than mechanics. This makes them particularly fast, consume less electricity and operate quietly. In other words, this type of storage device will displace the conventional hard disks within a few years.

The biggest obstacle to greater penetration of this technology has been its price. However, migration to SSD could be faster than expected with a recent announcement from Intel. The microprocessor giant announced a disc of 4 GB SSD for only $45. The Z-P230 series has a PATA interface (forerunner of SATA) and is suitable for portable units that do not require an exceptionally fast performance.

Initially, the series will be marketed in versions 4 and 8 GB, while awaiting a 16 GB version. What has most attracted the attention of observers is the low selling price.

The disk have a width of 1.8 “and 1.65 miliwatt consume in a state of suspension and 314 in operation. The disc writes at a speed of 7 MB per second and read at 35 MB per second. This performance is enough to watch a movie of 1.920×1.080 with 60 fps.

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The new quad-core processors L5420 and L5410 operating at 2.50 GHz and 2.33 GHz respectively, with 12 megabytes (MB) of on die cache and dedicated Frontside Bus (FSB) of 1333 MHz.

Intel Corporation has introduced two new processors on 45 nanometer (nm) low voltage for servers and workstations that operate at 50 watts, or only 12.5 watts per core, at frequencies up to 2.50 Gigahertz (GHz).

The quad-core Intel Xeon L5400 Series processor leverages the capabilities of manufacturing 45 nm and reinvented the formula of transistors that Intel combines to raise the performance and reduce power consumption in data centers.

The quad-core Intel Xeon L5400 processors are up to 25% faster and have a cache 50% larger than the quad-core Intel Xeon low voltage processors of the previous generation, while maintaining the low thermal cover of 50 watts.

“The use of metal gate transistors with high-k Hafnium infusion has enabled Intel quad-core chip 45 nm low voltage reach new heights in performance with efficient power consumption,” said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of the Intel Servers Platform Group. “These chips offers the speed that is needed at the same time using derisory amounts of energy.”

There big rumors on the Internet that Intel will be releasing the Quad-Core processors for notebooks on this year.

Montevina is the fifth generation of the Centrino platform scheduled to be released in Mid 2008. It will be Intel’s 45nm die-shrink version of its current generation of 65nm Core 2 processors.

Acording to some information sources, Intel decided to extent the original naming scheme for its mobile CPUs and will add a P to CPUs targeting notebooks and an S class for small form factor PC CPUs.

Intel originally had four segments to separate the TDP levels of its CPUs:

• X: for extreme segment
• T: for mobile high performance
• L: for mobile high energy efficient
• U: for mobile ultra-high energy efficient

Now will be adding  a P segment for the power-optimized energy-efficient high-performance CPUs and an S for the smaller package size CPUs for the small form factor products.

The quad-core CPUs for notebooks should be ready to be launched by the third quater of this year and will use the same code as it is in desktops, the Q.

Now what I can see is that hardware components are being developed more powerful in a faster way making Moore’s law in less time than other years.

Will software vendors ready to develop efficient code to let their software use and explode the maximun potential of these CPUs for next year?