Intel has revealed more details on the upcoming single-core processor known as Silverthorne. It is a 45nm processor designed for the mobile market, such as UMPCs and tiny notebooks. Several partners are eager to sink their teeth into the new processor and will have products ready when Intel decides to unveil the processor. Already, Intel has revealed some of the news with Silverthorne. The design is highly modular design that powers parts of the chip individually. Combining this with aggressive sleep states has reduced the peak power consumption to less than 2W, with a typical consumption of 1W.
Another part of the lower power consumption is thanks to Intel’s 45nm process, which has reduced power leakage significantly. The architecture has been designed to scale up to 2GHz without increasing the overall power consumption. It sports a 16-stage pipeline, 533MHz bus and 512KB L2 cache. Last but not least Intel has upgraded the chip with HyperThreading support.
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