Dew, Re: When we discussed this at some length a few months ago on the TMTA MB, you posted that Banias will have more than two voltage states and will operate in much the same way as Crusoe’s LongRun, which has multiple voltage states and dynamically adjusts the voltage and power according to the CPU load.
And that still stands, AFAIK. I would assume that Magee has had another peak at Intel's roadmaps, and is probably misunderstanding what he is reading. Either that, or he has a poor way of communicating it. The way it should be interpreted is that Banias will run as fast as 1.7GHz (not necessarily at launch) and dissipate up to 24.5W, assuming that the application needs that kind of performance. Conversely, it will operate as low as 600MHz, at which point it will dissipate up to 4.5W, assuming that the application does not need a lot of performance. It will, of course, continue to hit many different frequencies and voltages in between.
It's also nice to hear that Dothan will dissipate only 21W while at full frequency; although at 90nm, I am not surprised. Also, the 1.8GHz frequency is probably conservative on Intel's part. I would expect at least 2GHz from a process shrink to 90nm. Getting Banias on a process shrink in the same year that the micro-architecture launches should make out of it a very competitive part.
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