Intel’s new 45nm processors will be put up against AMD’s upcoming Barcelona architecture, which will arrive in less than a month. We’ve now been reached by information on what the new assortment of processors from Intel will look like. Intel will supposedly launch nine different 45nm desktop processors with the Penryn architecture. Four of these will be quad-cores, Yorkfield. while the remaining five will be based on the dual-core Wolfdale core. All models will have a processor bus of 1333MHz, but the clock frequency of the dual-cores is expected to range from 3.16GHz, 3.0GHz, 2.83GHz, down to 2.66GHz. The quad-cores will work at 2.83GHz, 2.66GHz, 2.5GHz, while the fourth has not been determined yet.
The dual-core Wolfdale will get an additional 2MB L2 cache, boosting it up to 6MB, while the quad-core Yorkfield will boost a whopping 12MB L2 cache.
Intel has chosen not to comment on the report published by DigiTimes, but if true it seems Intel will have a broad series of processors to put up against AMD’s coming K10 processors.
