Intel pulls in 45 nanometre production

CHIP FIRM Intel said it will now produce a server 45 nanometre processor based on Penryn in the second half of this year.

That, said Kirk Skaugen, general manager of server platforms, pulls in production by one quarter plus.

He said Intel will launch a Clovertown LV (low voltage) chip at 50 watts - 12.5 watts a core, in two weeks time.

He also said that Nehalem is on track for 2008. This slide below outlines everything he had to say about targets. He refuted a quote from Marty Seyer from AMD on benchmarks that the Opteron beat Intel CPUs on benchmarks. AMD even contradicted itself, he said. µ