Penryn 04.2.2007
Ars Technica has an article that covers some interesting technical details on Intel’s forthcoming Penryn chip. If you’re a chip person, you’ll likely read the whole thing. If you’re not, here are some of the high points:
- New radix-16 divider makes division up to 2x faster than a Core 2 Duo (sqrt if 4x)
- 50 new vector instructions (like one for the dot product)
- A new 128-bit shuffle engine to pack/unpack/align vectors in one clock
- 1.6 GHz on the FSB
- 6/12 MB of L2 on dual/quad core chips
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