INTEL's Santa Rosa Will Feature IDA

The Santa Rosa line will feature a new series of Merom 65nm CPUs. In order to maximize the platform capabilities, Merom will integrate IDA technology. The T7700, the T7500, the T7300 and the T7100 will have IDA, which stands for Intel Dynamic Acceleration. Sounds kind of interesting, doesn't it?

Apparently, there is not so much you can say about IDA since it acts as acceleration software written for both single-threaded applications but also for multi-threaded ones. It gives the cores more flexibility when executing a certain portion of a serial code and also produces higher load-balancing capabilities. At the same time, it provides specifications for the upcoming CPUs TDP.

35W for standard voltage, 17W for low voltage and 10W for ultra low voltage chips is actually the same TDP as for the last mobile platform. And that's not bad since capabilities of the CPUs have gone up but they still eat-up the same power. INTEL has also stated that in the same TDP values, it will integrate a GPU with rendering capabilities related to the Vista Aero interface. Not bad, guys!

As for the Low-Voltage and Ultra-Low-Voltage side, INTEL will introduce a mobile ULV 443 1.20GHz Celeron at $135. On that day, it will also release the 4MB cache L7400 (1.50GHz, 667MHz) at $318, the L7200 (1.33GHz/667MHz) at $285, and the Core Solo ULV U1500 (1.33GHz/533MHz/2MB) at $262. IDA will not be integrated in these series, as it is mostly targeted at high performance systems.