Intel's Six Core chip (Dunnington) coming in the second half of 08.

In a recent Press conference Intel Corporation announced that it expects to ship a six-core processor to resellers in the second half of this year. A senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise group Mr Pat Gelsinger says that the six-core chip, code-named Dunnington, will be built with Intel's new 45 nanometer (nm) technology and it will consist of 1.9 billion transistors and 16MB of L3 cache..!
Take a look at the picture it will give a brief idea about this latest technology from Intel :

"The big cache and six cores will give customers a nice bump in performance," Gelsinger said during a press briefing today about the company's product road map and its upcoming Intel Developer Forum, slated to be held next month in Shanghai..!
Intel, which only moved to the 45nm process late last year, also announced today that it plans to start producing 32nm chips in either 2009 or 2010. Gelsinger said the first 32nm chip is slated to be a shrunken version of Nehalem, an upcoming four-core chip. The 32nm chips are code named Westmere.

Read more in detail from Computer World

Intel's X48 Express chipset to support 1600MHZ Front-Side Bus

Intel had already announced it's Core 2 Extreme QX9770 which is due out this quarter but there was no official mother board that had released from the company that could support a front-side bus speeds of 1600MHZ, The latest Existing Chipsets P35 and X38 Express could support front-side bus speeds of up to 1333MHz...
Consumer of QX9770 will definitely look for a supportive chipset which could support this latest faster FSB CPU and keeping this in mind intel is going to release their latest mother board which is X48 Express chipset.

This is based on their previous X38 Express chipset but it will support 1600MHz front-side bus speeds and with this faster bus, the X48 looks poised to supplant its predecessor atop Intel's chipset lineup, which means a new wave of motherboards is coming from all the usual suspects...
Apert from all this this newly design chipset is also comes with an innovative Dynamic Energy Saver mechanism designed to lower power consumption...
Get a more detail of this in Tech Report..!

Intel to launch Core 2 Extreme QX9300 for Notebook..!

Very soon Intel will be launching it's first quad-core CPU for Notebooks which is Core 2 Extreme QX9300, Surely the price of the note book will be on the higher side because only the processor price is set as $1,038 thousand-unit tray quantities and according to Slashgear, the person buying such a notebook note book with quad-core CPU will surely want SLI graphics, a nice screen, and a bunch of other stuff, you’re looking at one pricey notebook...!
When just the processor starts at over a thousand dollars then we can approximately calculate the price of the fully assembled Notebook.

There is no doubt that it is going to be the fastest Notebook processor in present situation because It will be on the 45nm process and will operate at 2.53GHz. The processor will be in a P package and will have an FSB of 1066MHz with 12MB of L2 cache and a max TDP of 45 Watts.
Intel says they won’t become mainstream until the second half of 2009..!

Source : Digitimes via Slashgear

ASUS announced New Mother Board with EPU Technology

One of the leading Motherboard maker ASUS has now announced in a press release it's latest P5E3 Premium motherboard which is a more energy efficient as well as a power saver and the Technology is called EPU (Energy Processing Unit).


The main feature of this EPU or Energy Processing Unit is to ensure that the CPU is running at maximum energy efficiency and it save over 80 percent of power usage....
Other than this it is based on Intel X48 chipset and comes with built-in WiFi (802.11n) draft wireless , it will support DDR3 2000Mhz and dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 lanes.
Asus priced the P5E3 Premium at $369 and should be available at the end of February this year.

Source : Slashgear via Ohgizmo , Asus

Latitude XT Tablet... From Dell.................!

Dell has finally announced that they are going to introduce their first Latitude XT Tablet, which has a 12.1 inch convertible screen and It comes with Intel Core 2 Solo and Duo ULV processors, 120 GB hard drive with an option of swapping in a 64 GB SSD, an ATI Radeon X1250 UMA integrated graphics chipset and with extended batteries can reach up to 9.5 hrs of battery life.
The Latitude XT is also unique in the sense that it is the industry’s only sub-four-pound convertible tablet with pen and capacitive touch capability.
Capacitive technology senses the touch of a finger with no pressure required for the system to recognize input. It is also the forerunner to emerging multi-touch capabilities that allow the use of more than one finger for tasks such as zoom and repositioning a picture.
The Latitude XT is Energy Star 4.0-compliant and will be available in January 2008 for a price of $2,400 upwards.

Check from tech2.com for further information....!