IDF Spring 2005 - Day 2: The Yonah Scoop
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 3, 2005 1:01 AM EST- Posted in
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Other Facts about Yonah
Mooly offered a few more tidbits of information about Yonah and the Napa platform:
1) The Golan WiFi solution will be a minicard, less than half the size of the Colexico wireless solution used in current generation Pentium Ms. The WiFi in Napa will be 802.11a/b/g initially.
2) Yonah will have full support for Intel AMT and VT, both technologies we talked about yesterday.
3) The heat sink on the development Yonah platforms is purposefully large because the chip is far from mass production, the shipping chip will have no problems running just as cool, if not cooler than current generation Dothan notebooks.
4) No comment on EM64T support, although we doubt that Yonah will have 64-bit support out of the box. Remember that Yonah's execution units are borrowed from the Pentium 3, moving to 64-bit execution units would make the chip significantly larger, similar to what we saw in the Northwood -> Prescott transition (although not nearly as extreme, since the pipeline would remain the same). For a mobile platform, that decision just doesn't make sense yet.
5) The chipset is also listed as being a "Small Form Factor", most likely meaning that the package is smaller, allowing for even tinier board layouts.
Final Words
In meetings since Mooly's presentation we've been piecing together even more about the future of Yonah and Intel's strategy beyond Netburst, it looks like the focus on SIMD FP/FP performance was a calculated one...
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phaxmohdem - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
Mmmmmmm tasty.I'm starting to get worried though that my boyz down at AMD are slacking, seems like intel is working their asses off trying to catch back up and surpass AMD once again, and AMD just be chilling, basking in the success of A64. Then again, they also don't have the media/marketing circus that is IDF.
suryad - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
I want HT enabled in each of the cores. I am willing to sacrifice a bit of battery life for that. Heck fuel cells are probably going to be a reality in the next couple of years. I would like 64 bit but I can live without it. As long as the proc can kick ass in games and apps I am cool.PeteRoy - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
Yona in Hebrew is a Pigeonsphinx - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
So, there will be no 64-bit support in Yonah. What will Intel do to support XP-64 and Longhorn when they do come out. Don't get me wrong I like the power management Yonah will offer. But, I'm not quite sure I will be considering to drop my Dothan for a Yonah. Since there will be no 64-bit support.val - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
#1: and AMD is painting on the sky instead#3: AMD have nothing prepared except some DTR processors. They offered nothing serious until now and this will not change soon.
#8: for what you need 64bit on notebook? You do not need it even on desktop and rarely on server! You will not be upcomming few years able to get any benefit from it. Even many AMD mainboards have still 4GB memory limit which is rearely to be seen on the desktop.
knitecrow - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
what about x86-64 extensions?no word on that
Determinant - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
Yonah was designed in Israel. Yonah means Jonah in Jewish and Jonah is a prophet from the Bible that got swallowed by a whale and survived.Cheers
mickyb - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
Yonah reminds me of "Ya, know". As in "This new processor is going to be awesome, yonah."ianwhthse - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
It's just you.AlexWade - Thursday, March 3, 2005 - link
Is it just me, or is "Yonah" too close to "Yoda".