P6 core to live on in mobile sector

[JCLW]

I was just browsing around and noticed that the upcoming Banias mobile processor will be based on the P6 core. That's like a 77m transistor, 25W, 1.0~1.6ghz+, 400FSB, 1024k L2, 0.13 micron PIII with SSE2 and advanced power management.

And it'll make the transition to 0.09 under the name "Dothan" starting at 1.8ghz (21W) with a rumored 2048k L2 cache.

That's quite a lifespan for the P6 core, considering it was introduced in 1995 on a 0.60 process running at 150mhz.

- JW

[NookieN]

This is the first I've heard of it being a descendant of the P6 core -- where'd you read that? If it's true, I suspect it would have to be a very heavily revised P6 uarch.

It's power consumption figures are impressive though. There will actually be some versions of Banias that require as little as 7W. I wouldn't be surprised to see Banias notebooks with 5.5-6 hours of battery life late next year.

[JCLW]

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002apr/bch20020419011289.htm
http://www.theinquirer.org/?article=1294
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2097335,00.html
http://homepage3.nifty.com/aona/cpu/intel_cpu_mobile.html#banias
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122093,00.html
http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de/english/identify/picture/intel_cpu.html
http://www.tom.womack.net/x86FAQ/faq_cores.html

- JW

[toastedzergling]

Banias will make mobile P4s look silly, it's gonna be expensive though