ntel Corp.'s Penryn processors will push desktop PCs to
run 40 percent faster for gaming than the latest Intel Core 2 Extreme chip, a company executive said Monday, giving details on the new chip design planned to reach markets in the second half of 2007.
Likewise, Penryn-powered workstations will deliver a 45 percent improvement for bandwidth-intensive tasks, versus today's quad-core Intel Xeon, said Sean Maloney, Intel's executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer. Intel will achieve the feat by shrinking its chip features from 60 nanometers to 45nm and by using "high-k metal gate" transistors, which are arguably the biggest breakthrough in microchip technology in 40 years, he said.
Intel Penryn Chip