Intel Roadmap Possibilities
Hello,
First post here guys,
According to Anandtech.com you can expect Single and Dual core Pentium 4 code name: "Presler" running at 3.6 GHZ and 65nm process - with both cores supporting EM64T, meaning that Apple will still support 64-bit memory addressing and execution on their Intel platforms. This is of course on the desktop front.
On the the Mobile front which Apple might use for ibooks, powerbooks or minis check this out: (available early 2006)
Yonah will be made on the 65-nm process and contains 151.6 million transistors compared to current Pentium M, which has about 140 million transistors. It will have two cores and share a 2MB cache since sharing the cache will significantly boost performance. A single-core version of Yonah will also come out for budget notebooks. Yonah will come with improved technology for curbing power consumption and heat dissipation. Yonah will sport La Grande security technology but won't be EM64T as initially planned since 64-bit will consume more battery life. The footprint on Yonah notebooks will be up to 31 percent smaller than those of existing notebooks. The chip will be paired with a chipset, called Calistoga, and a Wi-Fi module, called Golan, that will receive and send 802.11a, b and g. Later versions will come with 802.11n, the so-called MIMO technology. Wimax will start to be added in notebooks as an option around 2007.
Source: ZDNet
As far as 2007 and beyond... this is the real reason that I feel Apple has gone with Intel:
Pentium 5 -- not based on current Pentium 4 design ...but on Pentium M technology with some of the good lessons learned on P4
-- Quad core and dual core Merom (after Yonah) for Mobile and its twin desktop version called Conroe ... from what I read somewhere the quad core will only consume under 160W for all four cores! and each core will share 2Mb cache .... should be a rocket!
SO APPLE WILL HAVE LOTS OF CHOICES FOR LOW END & HIGH END MACHINES! THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT FOR APPLE!
