Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2008 to Include Presentation on 45nm Core 2 DTS Specification
by Kris Boughton on August 14, 2008 1:00 PM EST- Posted in
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We met with Intel today and have some interesting IDF (Intel Developer Forum) 2008 news. IDF is scheduled this year for August 19 - 21 in San Francisco. It is shaping up to be an exciting event for those tech geeks like us as X58/i7, Larrabee, and System on Chip (SoC) technologies will be discussed in detail among other things. We learned this afternoon that full disclosure of Intel's existing 45nm processor Digital Thermal Sensor (DTS) specification will be presented on Day 3. This 50-minute technical presentation on DTS (course #TMTS001) will start at 1:40 pm. A complete schedule of events can be found by visiting Intel’s official IDF website.
Benson Inkley, a senior power/thermal engineer with Intel, is prepared to address nearly every aspect of DTS functionality for the attendees. However, perhaps the biggest surprise to come out of his presentation will be the first-ever public disclosure of the maximum Tjunction value for all Core 2 Duo/Quad/Extreme desktop processors built on current 45nm-process technology.
Armed with this information, seasoned application developers and amateur coders alike will finally have everything they need to implement the most accurate, real-time core temperature display tool possible. We discussed this topic in our Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 review back in March 2008, except our discussion left quite a few unanswered questions flapping in the breeze. Come next Thursday, anyone walking out of Mr. Inkley's technical session will have all the knowledge needed to lay any longstanding DTS questions to rest.
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TruePath - Monday, August 18, 2008 - link
No, he's not an imbecile but that's because he wasn't really trying to correct his confusion. No doubt he was confused by the inconsistant date, at least for awhile but it was easier to figure out the correct date than it is to make a post asking about it. Hell, I doubt he was really marking it down in his calendar and even if so the simplest solution would just have been to check both days.In short the comment wasn't really a request for information or even a suggestion (the author knows he should avoid incorrect dates). Rather the aim of the comment was merely to censure the author for violating some standard of good writing/carefulness/whatever.
Now humans are a rule enforcing species and we all feel the desire to punish others for breaking the rules. However, it's generally both unproductive and frowned upon (i.e. violates a rule itself) to do this about trivial issues like this date confusion that result from simple honest mistakes. Reply
smilingcrow - Friday, August 15, 2008 - link
This data will save a lot of bandwidth on over-clocking forums. :) Replykeitaro - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - link
Wow... who would've thought that they'd finally released the Tjunction numbers for their Penryn CPUs? I kinda wish they'd do that from the start though. But oh well. Better now (or soon to be now) than later. Good job, Intel. ReplyKeypoX - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - link
took long enough Replysoundx98 - Saturday, August 16, 2008 - link
I'm looking forward to it.It is way overdue. Reply