Northwood to run at 1.3v =8*p

[rcf84]

Well Northwood will use less power then the Athlon 4.

Athlon 4 ( .18 micron + SOI ) = 1.5v
vs.
Northwood p4 ( .13 micron + all copper ) = 1.3v

This should mean northwood will be using the same about of watts as the P3 coppermine. So there will be no choking the p4 (aka 2ghz @ 1ghz). With that lovely built up FPU and SSE2 a serious kick ass processor.

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[Phelk]

What are the current expected release dates for Northwood?

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[rcf84]

Q3 2001 or Q4 2001

Northwood 2.0ghz
20kb L1 Trace cache, 512kb L2 cache
Socket 478
20% cheaper then current P4 processors
Supports SMP !!! w/ VIA PX266, i850e


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[TheAntipop]

the current athlon 4s dont have soi. and could you provide us a link to the info you found? im curious whether this will be a notebook only thing.

I don't have the time to procrastinate.

 

[scarywoody]

I would just like to clarify something. I'm all for the P4 but dammit it is not all copper. The first metal layer uses conventional metals due to the fact that the copper will migrate into the silicon substrate below.

 

[ksoth]

Athlons do not use SOI right now. The Athlon 4 is able to scale faster and run cooler because of an optimized transistor layout and new transistor types, not SOI. AMD will introduce SOI with it's Hammer and Barton lines of processors in the first half of 2002, at .13 micron. Thouroughbred won't have it either.

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