Intel Quad-Core Laptop Chip Coming This Fall
March 19, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
Screw the underpowered MacBook Air. Real road hogs will want quad-core laptops.
Intel is planning to launch its first quad-core CPU for notebooks, the Core 2 Extreme QX9300, in the third quarter this year with pricing set at a new high of US$1,038 in thousand-unit tray quantities, according to sources at motherboard makers.
The Core 2 Extreme QX9300 will be manufactured at 45nm and have a core frequency of 2.53GHz. The CPU will come in a socket P package and support FSB speeds up to 1066MHz. The chip will include 12MB L2 cache and have a maximum TDP of 45W.
More than the notebooks based on the chip, I’d like to see how hardware makers provide them any sort of reasonable battery life. This thing will guzzle way more power than current mobile processors.
