Best of What's New 2008

Intel Core 2 Duo Small Form Factor

A mini chip for thinner laptops

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Thank Intel for this year’s super-slim notebooks—the Apple MacBook Air, Lenovo X300 and VooDoo Envy 133 each measure about three quarters of an inch thick. These svelte laptops all contain a 60-percent-smaller version of Intel’s Core 2 Duo that, at 0.76 square inch, fits in even the tightest spaces. Instead of shrinking the processor itself, Intel trimmed the metal-and-plastic package that surrounds it, bunching power wires closer together and developing a tidier epoxy to hold the chip with less goop.
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Comments

I would think that despite the end-of-year timing, Intel's Nehalem microarchitecture would be be a much better contender for this spot.

Especially since the Air has already replaced the initial SFF chip with a more efficient and powerful "off the rack" smaller-processed CPU package. I'd expect the same thing to happen in the Envy 133 and X300.

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