work it, make it, do it, makes us
power work is never over

Its OUR work is never over...dumbass.

A Penryn is it's own little thing where if you eat contaminated beef/venison, when you get older you'll have really painful shit-out-of-luck altzhemiers...get it.

please Gizmodo, read your post's title before you actually post the damn thing!

You forgot to mention one thing:

that these babies kick Phenom's sorry ass.

@Monkey4Sale: That's a prion. Penryn is a place either in Wales or California.

didn't she work for nintendo?

@Sam265: The original Welsh name is Penrhyn, meaning Headland (cape or promontory). Penryn, without the "h" is the Cornish version of the same celtic word.

Really since Northwood (followed by Prescott, Presler, Conroe, Kentsfield, and now Penryn), new Intel processors have been called by their internal code names, because it's cool or something. On the other side of the coin however, nobody cares what AMD's code names are. Something to do with Intel crushing them, I think.

@chanmoss: Daft Punk rulezzz!

and somehow, even with the new cpu, my laptop will STILL only get 1 hour and 40 minutes of battery life.

@davekaybsc: it's too bad really, because i think if amd had intel's capital, or intel had amd's base processor structure we would have one heck of a chip.

@EMoShunz: As with so many things, if the competitors worked together to build the best of both their products into one thing it would truly stop the world.

What if... god forbid... for the benefit of all humanity, Intel, AMD, and IBM worked together on a superchip. I challenge all three to work together and BEAT MOORES LAW!

Penryn is a township in California- I know that much. I used to live there. Couldn't say for sure for Wales, but I'm sure there's a larger city in Europe or somewhere.
That's all. Peace :]

I they all start working together on a constant basis there will be no competition, and eventually prices will go up, and quality and innovation down. There's a reason why monopolies are a bad thing.

On the other hand, I think if they worked together it would produce a bastard child of compromises that everyone would hold their nose at.

@radikaled: I'm pretty sure adding AMD to the team will just make the superchip slower and and more prone to critical failures.

Yes, cooperation of that sort would breed complacency and kill competition.

Besides, do you really think that budget size or resources are slowing any of these giants down? Could AMD not find the capital if they needed more? They were consistently beating Intel for a while, were they not?

Now they've fallen behind and they're busting ass to get back in the game. Its all good for consumers.

Speaking of codenamed products, when will MS stop using "Windows 7" and come up with something? And what's the deal with airplane peanuts? Am I right?...

more importantly when do these penryn chips get released, I'd like to play crysis within the next year...

Thanks, Giz, I've been wondering myself what's the F is Penryn? Seriously, I assumed it was the name of some new element they were using to make the next processor line, not just a corny name. Thanks for clearing it up.

For one, Penryn isn't a town in Wales. It's in Cornwall, England.

Penryn's been around for quite a while. What the article should have been called is "What the F is a Nehalem, Westmere, and Sandy Bridge?"

Yet another reason Intel is kicking the crap out of AMD: developing three iterations ahead of schedule.

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@Argyle: Yeah! What I'd like to know is when we can see these for purchase at Newegg! All they've got so far is the $1200 Extreme availiable, my wallet and I would be perfectly happy with a Dual Core. Any news on ETAs?

but the real question is... will they blend?

My question (besides if they'll blend) is: when am I actually going to be able to buy a gaming rig with a Penryn chip stuffed inside? Answer me that, Giz, and you'll be my holiday hero. The only bit of information I've been able to glean thus far is that they'll be in rigs "Q1 2008."

@apt94jesse: Airplane peanuts contain a lot of salt so passengers don't have to piss as much during a flight, if at all.

@alin0steglinski: yes

@Sam265: Way to ruin a bad joke.

You're all sheep; just drooling at the chance to throw some more of you hard-earned money away and a little bit more power while the thing you blew all your money on last year is worth 1/10 of what you paid.

Man, I really need to buy some Intel stock so I can enjoy some of your money too.

@radikaled:
The law is already broken....
The typical PC has now well over 1 billion transistors between CPU, GPU, Chipset and Memory....

People I love when this Intel lovers just talk bs about AMD. Let me remind you that is because AMD exist is that we have now PC that cost less than $500 and are great for almost everything. If was not because AMD Athlons were way better than Pentiums that PC prices dropped from the thousands. If you were really an smart guy you will bet in an AMD product to keep them alive and keep the competition that at the end help us all to have dual core CPUs for less than a hundred.

we already had something like that with IBM, Motorola and Apple birthing the powerpc chip. Which got slower and hotter with each generation. Well not slower obviously, but it sure didnt keep up with moores law.

@radikaled: and this post will find itself all the way to the Inboxes of the respective CEOs of those companies and they shall all rejoice in harmony witha little dance_