Intel looks to the future: Merom, Conroe, and Woodcrest

[K. Eng]

Intel has finally made some public announcements about its next family of x64 (x86-64) microprocessors. A microarchitecture shift like this occurs only once every 5 or 6 years, and consequently, this is a huge milestone:

http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5842125.html

Merom, Conroe, and Woodcrest are based on the Merom architecture, which is a brand-new core that follows the design goals of the original Pentium M: high performance and low power consumption.

Arstechnica has some great commentary below:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050823-5231.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050823-5232.html