Intel panics and announces Merom
INTEL HAS FINALLY let the cat out of the bag and announced the Merom clan. I say finally because it is pretty much an open secret that they are coming. Intel was forced into this by a lack of current product and a rash of bad PR. The PR was mostly self inflicted, and I actually prefer the honesty that came forth this week to the usual answering of tangential questions.
I don't know what exactly it "announced", or if it was any more than a code name, but they are 'outed' now, so now the speculation about what they are begins the beguine. Luckily, if you are reading this, it also ends. There are three chips. Merom, the mobile part, Conroe, the desktop, and Woodcrest, the Xeon. They will be followed by Whitefield, essentially a 4 core follow on to Woodcrest. All of them, except Woodcrest, will be dual core from the start.
