Intel has one more ace up its sleeve trying to bring life back to the NetBurst-architecture before moving on to its Pentium M-inpired processor architecture. This last ace is, as ordinary, a new manufacturing process. By using 65nm manufacturing process you can reduce the power consumption and heat dissipartion compared to Prescott, and at the same time be able to reach higher frequencies. Cedar Mill and Presler are the two 65nm-cores Intel will launch at the start of next year. The first is a 65nm-version of the Pentium 4 600-series while Presler is the seuqel to the dual core processor Pentium D.
At Anandtech they’ve been able to acquire one Cedar Mill and one Presler-based processor and decided to take a closer look at the perhaps most interesting bit with these new 65nm-circuits. Namely how well they overclock and the power consumption. The results show that the 65nm manufacturing process will bring life back to the Intel NetBurst-architecture and despite that we are only talking about early engineering samples they have been able to achieve very respectable speeds only using air cooling.
