The Performance Gain on the New Intel Processors Will Be of Up to 80%

Intel is aware that last year it lost ground to AMD, but the processor market leader is determined to recover the handicap, at IDF (Intel Developer Forum) the company discussing about the three dual-core processors based on the Core Microarchitecture technology and their performances compared to the current models.

From what Justin Rattner, Intel's Chief Technology Officer, told the audience, the new processors will be first implemented in notebooks, then in desktops, and towards the end of the year, in servers.

The CTO said that for the notebook processor, Merom, the performance gain will be more than 20 per cent using the same power, the desktop version, Conroe, will give a 40 per cent performance increase using 40 per cent less power, and the server one, Woodcrest will boast an 80 per cent performance boost using 35 per cent less power.

"The billions of dollars of Intel's spending is showing some results. They're going to be better than AMD in the second half of the year in performance per watt," Justin Rattner said at the IDF.

"The Intel Core microarchitecture is a milestone in enabling scalable performance and energy efficiency. Later this year it will fuel new dual-core processors and quad-core processors in 2007 that we expect to deliver industry leading performance and capabilities per watt. People will see systems that can be faster, smaller and quieter with longer battery life and lower electric bills," he added.