According to Digitimes, Intel’s first Quad Core mobile CPU is coming soon: Q3 2008.
Intel is planning to launch its first quad-core CPU for notebooks, the Core 2 Extreme QX9300, in the third quarter this year with pricing set at a new high of US$1,038 in thousand-unit tray quantities, according to sources at motherboard makers.
It’s not a surprise that the CPU will command a premium. We’ll be seeing many high end gaming notebooks with the chip.
The Core 2 Extreme QX9300 will be manufactured at 45nm and have a core frequency of 2.53GHz. The CPU will come in a socket P package and support FSB speeds up to 1066MHz. The chip will include 12MB L2 cache and have a maximum TDP of 45W.
Impressive. A dual core performance CPU has a TDP of 25-35W. 45W for four cores operating at such a high frequency is very impressive.
Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that these chips will use Socket P – the current socket of choice in most Merom and all Penryn based notebooks. It is great to know that there will be a quad core upgrade path for people buying socketed-cpu notebooks right now.
