Intel mentioned a specially designed mobile processor that was suppose to be very overclocking-friendly during IDF and it’s been a bit hard to imagine exactly what it was talking about. APC mag has stumbled upon some more information about Intel’s mobile Santa Rosa platform and the Enhanced Dynamic Acceleration Technology, which is said to be the key to this overclockable processor. According to Intel it’s not really overclocking, as that means running the processor at speeds exceeding the specifications. Enhanced Dynamic Acceleration Technology instead makes sure to that you use Intel’s dual-core architecture to the fullest, by raising the frequency when suitable and most fitting.
“The idea is the following,” explained Eden. “If you are running a single threaded application, one of the cores can go to sleep, and the left over power can be used by the other core – we give it a turbo boost; the ability to run faster than it used to.
Intel says that this is not the same thing as conventional overclocking as it uses power from the idle processor core. The technology sounds quite exciting, especially to those who are using a lot of single-threaded applications. So far Enhanced Dynamic Acceleration Technology seems to be Santa Rosa exclusive, but we would be surprised if it remained so.
