IDF 2007: Quad core can do even more
Intel's 45 nanometre quad core
codenamed Yorkfield runs at speeds of up to 3.4GHz and Intel can ship
this part tomorrow. Sources have confirmed that with some tweaks the
core can do even more and with some overclocking even 4GHz should not
be hard to reach.
We've seen the 4GHz part with phase
change cooler, but this part didn't need any voltage tweaks which
means with most of the cores and higher voltage you should be able to
hit 4GHz even with air cooling.
The 3.6 to 3.8GHz should be easy and even
if AMD comes with 3GHz Barcelona this year we sincerely doubt that
this chip can beat the 3.4GHz Yorkfield.
