Dell brings Precision M2300, M4300 laptops into the Penryn fold

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• Filed under: Laptops
• Date: Feb 29,2008

It’s already extended Penryn updates to its Precision M6300 laptop and a couple of Inspirons, but Dell’s unsurprisingly not done yet, and it’s now doled out similar upgrades to its Precision M2300 and M4300 models.

Those are each now available with Penryn processors ranging from 2.1GHz to 2.6GHz, and for the same price as the earlier Merom processors, although Dell warns that opting for Penryn on the M2300 may delay your ship date.

Otherwise, you can load ‘em up with a max 4GB of RAM and 32GB or 64GB SSD drives, but you’ll have to make do with an NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M for graphics. Read the rest of this entry »

Intel Planning 6-Core “Dunnington” Microprocessor

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• Filed under: Rumors
• Date: Feb 23,2008

According to the chaps at the Eclipse Developer’s Journal (EDJ), Intel is planning a six-core microprocessor, which will go by the Dunnington moniker.

The six-core beast will be succeeded by the even meatier, Nehalem micro-architecture, which will support greater than eight cores.

The work regarding the Dunnington project is still under wraps, but our friends at EDJ insist Intel has already put together a die, the size of a postage stamp, with three dual-core 45nm Penryn chips on it sharing a 16MB L3 cache.
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