Preliminary Santa Rosa platform power consumption figures

[K. Eng]

Santa Rosa is the next generation Intel mobile platform, consisting of a Core 2 Duo processor, 965 series chipset, and Intel Wireless (Compare to today's Napa platform, which is a Core or Core 2, 945 series chipset, and 3935ABG wireless card).

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33229

The chart shows that the 965 chipset will have a max TDP of 16.2 Watts compared to the 945's 8.7 Watts. Now these are near worst case figures, but this seems to bode ill for both the temperature of Santa Rosa notebooks as well as their battery life.

The Napa platform may just hang in there for awhile, since it is Core 2 compatible, and is very thrifty in power consumption.

[sugo]

Santa Rosa is still 1 year away from launch. I can't imagine intel pushing a 16W chipset out like that.

[simms]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... i=2808&p=1

Testing has shown performance is better with equal or more battery life with santa rosa...

[K. Eng]

Look again - the AnandTech report is not testing the Santa Rosa platform. That test is a comparison of Core and Core 2 on the Napa platform (945PM chipset).

Core 2 is more efficient than Core at a given performance level. However, it remains to be seen whether the Santa Rosa chipset is as efficient as the 945.