It wasn't clear until now if Intel could hold true to their roadmap. The Conroe die shrink (Penryn) was supposed to be launched this year, but that timeframe seemed difficult to meet. From past declarations they slated it for late Q3 or early 2008.

In a post that's a complement to a recent one, Tgdaily confirms that all is going well. 45nm technology is ready and we should see the first CPUs no later than 2007. If you don't remember what Penryn'll bring to the table (apart from lower power consumption and higher clock speeds) here's a recap:

- More cache: 6Mb per two cores.

- Fast Radix-16 Divider and Super Shuffle Engine, what this nice names mean is: higher IPC.

- Intel SSE4 instructions.

- Higher bus speeds: 1333Mhz for the desktop version, actually.

What all this'll buy you is a 10% performance increase compared to current Core 2 running at the same clock speed. Factor the SSE4 optimizations that still are on the way and we could be talking about even better improvements in several tasks (video encoding comes to mind).

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