21.07.2009 20:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

32 nm engraving at Intel seems very efficient!

A person at site  coolaler.com has managed to get his hands on a preproduction Intel Core i5 processor. The processor runs at 3,06 GHz and is engraved in 32nm.  It could also be overclocked, without any difficulty or additional cooling to run at 4 GHz. This result is somewhat spectacular since it would have been obtained with a voltage on the processor of only 0,8V! As a comparison, the 3,06 GHz processor, such as the one in the latest Macbook Pro, needs a voltage of 1,15V. This 0,35V difference will, in the final analysis, make an enormous difference in the level of power consumption of the new CPU, since in the formula giving it, the voltage is squared.

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