Yonah will have four TDP levels

[Tony Hill]

I don't have the link handy right now, I read it a few weeks ago.
Actually let's do a google search, I came up with this little piece:

Pentium M bright star in Intel's fromagerie
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19495

Two more bus bumps to 800MHz would put you at 39W, two more at
51W for a 1066FSB. With appropriate memory, you would be competitive
with the best out there right off the bat. Bumping the core voltage up
a bit, suck up another 10W there, hell, use 20W if you feel the need.
Use this to bump the speed to 2.4GHz, and while you would be in
spitting distance of the best reported 90nm A64 numbers, you would
probably be faster.

theinquirer.net is your source for circuit design information? You gotta
do better than that. The guy pulls the 6w to go 133 MHz out of his
behind. This is a totally meaningless article. Do you really know
anything about hardware?

I think he got his power draw numbers from Intel's various sSpec
configs. See, for example, the following:

http://processorfinder.intel.com/sc...cFam=942&PkgType=ALL&SysBusSpd=ALL&CorSpd=ALL

and

http://processorfinder.intel.com/sc...cFam=942&PkgType=ALL&SysBusSpd=ALL&CorSpd=ALL


Both chips are 90nm, 2.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache chips. However the first
runs off a 400MT/s bus and has a TDP of 21.0W of power while the
second runs off a 533MT/s bus and has a TDP of 27.0W.

Our little friend from The Inquirer probably jumped to the (totally
incorrect) assumption that the difference between these two TDP
numbers comes down solely to the difference in bus speeds.

Of course, he's totally ignoring the fact that TDP is NOT the actual
power consumed by the chip, but rather a guideline to system
manufacturers. Reading through Intel's various sSpecs you can see
that the entire line of standard 533MT/s bus speed Pentium-M chips
have a TDP of 27.0W. Now as we should all know, a 2.26GHz chip will
tend to consume more power than a 1.60GHz chip, however this is not
reflected in TDP.


Long story short, the dude from The Inquirer is smoking crack again.

 

[Del Cecchi]

I don't have the link handy right now, I read it a few weeks ago.
Actually let's do a google search, I came up with this little piece:

Pentium M bright star in Intel's fromagerie
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19495

Two more bus bumps to 800MHz would put you at 39W, two more at
51W for a 1066FSB. With appropriate memory, you would be competitive
with the best out there right off the bat. Bumping the core voltage
up
a bit, suck up another 10W there, hell, use 20W if you feel the need.
Use this to bump the speed to 2.4GHz, and while you would be in
spitting distance of the best reported 90nm A64 numbers, you would
probably be faster.

theinquirer.net is your source for circuit design information? You
gotta
do better than that. The guy pulls the 6w to go 133 MHz out of his
behind. This is a totally meaningless article. Do you really know
anything about hardware?

I think he got his power draw numbers from Intel's various sSpec
configs. See, for example, the following:

http://processorfinder.intel.com/sc...cFam=942&PkgType=ALL&SysBusSpd=ALL&CorSpd=ALL

and

http://processorfinder.intel.com/sc...cFam=942&PkgType=ALL&SysBusSpd=ALL&CorSpd=ALL


Both chips are 90nm, 2.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache chips. However the first
runs off a 400MT/s bus and has a TDP of 21.0W of power while the
second runs off a 533MT/s bus and has a TDP of 27.0W.

Our little friend from The Inquirer probably jumped to the (totally
incorrect) assumption that the difference between these two TDP
numbers comes down solely to the difference in bus speeds.

Of course, he's totally ignoring the fact that TDP is NOT the actual
power consumed by the chip, but rather a guideline to system
manufacturers. Reading through Intel's various sSpecs you can see
that the entire line of standard 533MT/s bus speed Pentium-M chips
have a TDP of 27.0W. Now as we should all know, a 2.26GHz chip will
tend to consume more power than a 1.60GHz chip, however this is not
reflected in TDP.


Long story short, the dude from The Inquirer is smoking crack again.

Thanks for clearing that up. I was wondering where the 6 watts came from
cuz I couldn't justify it.