14 DAY TRIAL // While AMD prepares for launching its first quad core family of processors designed of the server market with the consumer market processors to follow after some time in the form of the Phenom class of central processing units, Intel prepares for a new launch of desktop oriented processors and according to an official Intel road map when the Penryn comes they will come as a rather large group.
Intel is looking ahead to releasing at an yet undisclosed date no less than nine Penryn based central processing units and the CPU manufacturer and vendor already set the running clock speeds for seven of the new processors. Among the nine upcoming Penryns, there will be four quad core CPUs based on the Yorkfield core while the rest of them will be based on the Wolfdale dual core architecture. While not all the frequencies are set and established, three of the upcoming Yorkfield based processors will arrive with the following clock speeds: 2.83GHz, 2.66GHz and 2.50GHz, while the frontside bus frequency will remain at 1333MHz. The Yorkfields will come with two different cache memories: the 2.83 GHz and 2.66 GHz models will be equipped with the big 12MB L2 of cache while the slower 2.50 GHz model will have to do with only 6MB.
Apart from the quad core processors, the dual core ones based on the Wolfdale internal architecture will arrive with running speeds of 3.16GHz, 3.00GHz, 2.83GHz and 2.66GHz. And while some of the Wolfdale processors have still undisclosed frequencies it is known that all of them will feature a 1333MHz frontside bus and 6MB as the second level cache memory. Apart from this information it is not known yet what commercial designation will carry the dual core CPUs, only that they will be integrated into the Core 2 Duo family.
Two additional Penryn desktop intended processors, one Yorkfield and a Wolfdale, are yet to be announced as far as their running speeds are concerned. The Yorkfield will come with the standard 12MB of L2 cache memory while the Wolfdale will carry only 6MB, but both of them will use the 1333MHz frontside bus.