While Intel is busy unveiling their Silverthorne range of Low power processors designed mainly for UMPC’s in the ISSCC , they are also taking care of the High end Mobile platform processors.Intel is now getting ready to launch the X9000 Core 2 Extreme Edition Mobile Processor by this February end.

The Intel Core 2 Extreme Edition Processor is designed on the 45 nm architecture while the current fastest Extreme processor is based on 65 nm architecture.Intel is promising a certain performance increase than the baseline processor.Intel has optimised performance with HD related media on this processor by using Intel® HD Boost technology.

The X9000 is having a 6 MB shared L2 Cache and is running its FSB at 800 MHz.

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IBM has announced their all new 45nm architecture based Cell Processor ,which powers the PlayStation 3 .Currently the Cell processor is being manufactured on 65nm architecture and soon IBM will be shifting to the new 45 nm ones .

The 45nm architecture is surely going to save money for the user , both in terms of power intake and manufacturing cost.Indeed IBM is doing this for Sony the biggest customer for the Cell Processor , which was in fact mainly designed as a coprocessor for Super Computers.

The shrink will make the new chip’s die to be around 34% smaller than the 65 nm architecture and each chip will consume only 60% of the power now taken into those 65 nm processors.Sooner or later Sony will be reducing the price of PS3 because of this.So keep your hopes up.

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Intel will be starting the shipment of their new X38 chipsets by mid-September [ ie, this week ].The X38 is a highly anticipated chipset with support for PCi Express 2.0 and the dual PCie x16 graphics slots.

The Intel X38 chipsets will be having:

• 1333 MHz FSB
• DDR3 RAM at 1333 MHz
• PCi express 2.0 a.k.a PCie 2.0
• Dual PCi Express x16 graphics slots
• and an integrated core logic chipset with ISH , Integrated Heat Spreader technology which manages and dissipates heat efficiently

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AGEIA announced their first and the world’s first physics processor made for notebooks, AGEIA Physx 100M.Designed to work under low power with very low thermal dissipation AGEIA will power physics supported games like the upcoming Unreal Tournament 3.

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Intel briefly revealed a post with details about upcoming Xeon processors which are based on the upcoming Penryn based microprocessors.Intel hastily removed the post after sometime according to MacWorld.

The interesting fact about the post is that , the mentioned Intel Xeon processors are supposedly the successors of the Mac Pro Desktop chips.SO this new range of Xeon processors might mean that some Higher End Mac Pro desktops are going to be available soon.

Intel mentioned about [tag] Penryn [/tag] based Quad Core Xeon processors with clock speeds ranging from 2.0 GHz to 3.16 GHz.The new features which are notable decrease in the Thermal Design Power [ TDP ] , The Quad Core Xeon’s will be having a TDP of 80 Watts except the 3.16 Ghz [tag] Xeon [/tag] which is having 120 Watts TDP.The FSB of these Penryn Xeon’s is 1333 MHz and 12 MB of L2 cache will be featured.

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AMD is still supporting their Athlon series of processors though their upcoming , Phenom is a much better platform.This New [tag] AMD [/tag] Athlon 64 X2 is a dual core , 64 bit [tag] CPU [/tag] with actual product name Athlon 6400+ .Its  clock speed is 3.2 GHz.

The main feature of this new Black edition [tag] Processor [/tag] is that it supports the unbuffered 800 MHz [tag] DDR2 [/tag] .

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Sony announced two new members of VAIO FZ family , VAIO VGN VGN-FZ285U/B and VGN-FZ240E/B.The VGN-FZ285 is a higher end FZ series notebook with in built Blu-Ray Disc burner.Both FZ2 notebooks are provided with 15.4″ widescreen LCD display with built-in webcam and microphone.

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