Planned chips axed
Whether it was the stimulating state of the world economy, or whether it was due to a change of strategy at Intel, for whatever the reason, it appears that they have canceled plans to release two new processors: Auburndale and Havendale.
Both of these were hybrid processors: able to handle regular CPU stuff in addition to handling graphics as well. AMD still plans to go in this direction, with their line of code-named Fusion processors, due to hit the market in approximately 2011.
Auburndale and Havendale were planned to be 45nm chips that each had two hyper-threaded processing cores, with an GPU stuck on the die. The graphics core was to be serviced by a Quick Path Interface, and all the cores were to be helped by a 4MB L3 cache. The Havendale was destined to be a desktop part; the Aburndale, for notebooks.
This is speculation, but it appears that Intel may be planning to counter AMD's Fusion CPU/GPU processors with cheap 32nm quad core CPUs and their upcoming discrete graphics processor currently in development (codenamed Larrabee.) Larrabee has been rumored to be ready for public release sometime in early 2010.
Both of these were hybrid processors: able to handle regular CPU stuff in addition to handling graphics as well. AMD still plans to go in this direction, with their line of code-named Fusion processors, due to hit the market in approximately 2011.
Auburndale and Havendale were planned to be 45nm chips that each had two hyper-threaded processing cores, with an GPU stuck on the die. The graphics core was to be serviced by a Quick Path Interface, and all the cores were to be helped by a 4MB L3 cache. The Havendale was destined to be a desktop part; the Aburndale, for notebooks.
This is speculation, but it appears that Intel may be planning to counter AMD's Fusion CPU/GPU processors with cheap 32nm quad core CPUs and their upcoming discrete graphics processor currently in development (codenamed Larrabee.) Larrabee has been rumored to be ready for public release sometime in early 2010.
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