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  • jjj - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    And this is how a 30W TDP part will be labeled 20W TDP,reminds me of AMD's ACP.
  • mino - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    Reminds me Intel TDP since NetBurst's introduction.

    Ah, and also AMD's ACP response 8 years later (with which they still refused to lie and call it "TDP" ...).
  • duploxxx - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    Is this new? its just a matter of implementation. You just set a few rated tdp's and put a possible speed against it. nothing new. THis is marketing slides.

    Are your Intel marketing slides payed for each post you make? you could introduced this all in one thread...
  • Hlafordlaes - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    Scram, son, the men are talking.
  • snausage_fest - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    Somehow I just know you're not exactly a beacon of manliness in real life... All the same, this is another revolutionary Intel feature that won't revolutionize anything, much less be noticed by 99% of users.
  • Chloiber - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    I also don't quite see the difference. My T410 also doesn't clock as high when unplugged as when plugged in. So obviously the TDP is also lower. This probably applies to pretty much every notebook out there.
    So instead of rating the CPU with the TDP it delivers with maximum performance, Intel now just rates the CPUs with the TDP they use when not plugged in.

    That's marketing, I can't see anything else.

    And by the way: normally, a docking station requires MORE cooling. A notebook is generally cooler when just plugged in, than when plugged in and sitting on a docking station (of course there exist huge "coolers", but that's not the general case).
  • stephenbrooks - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    Current netbooks clock higher when plugged in, or when not plugged in, clock higher when CPU demand is high.

    The difference with this "configurable TDP" thing seems to be the processors can temporarily exceed even the maximum they could be run at continuously, provided the CPU is cold. I.e. 35W all the time would overheat the chip, but 35W for a few seconds is OK.
  • hyvonen - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    Sandy Bridge is doing this already. The only difference I can think of between IB and SB is that IB turbo power limit (or turbo time limit) changes depending on cooling conditions.
  • Mr Perfect - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    I think that's mostly a function of battery power. Current laptops do not receive better cooling when running off of the wall charger, so the only limit plugging in overcomes is power. This idea of docking onto a <b>better cooler</b> to run at a higher speed is new.
  • Jamahl - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    Sounds to me like the perfect excuse for intel to segment the market and charge more for the same chip again.
  • ahmedz_1991 - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    if this really works out, it'll be a huge gain for the netbook industry! i guess we'll wait and c !
  • ketchup79 - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    This new "breakthrough," at least the way it is presented in this article, is little more than marketing hype of something that is already there. I am not exactly badmouthing Intel for doing so, but somewhat disappointed nonetheless.
  • Kiji - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    "Ivy Bridge's configurable TDP will help OEMs build ultra thin notebooks without sacrificing performance - particularly when docked." - Can someone explain me what do you mean by docked ?
  • hyvonen - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    Remember docking stations? You know, those small hubs where you can connect your external displays, full-size keyboard and mouse, ethernet cable etc? Just "dock" your laptop and you have a desktop-like environment to work with.

    In this context, I think the difference between "docked" and "undocked" might be that the docking station somehow cools the laptop/CPU from the bottom of the laptop case, allowing higher performance because the system can now handle the increased heat generation... this probably works both temporarily (higher turbo) and sustainably (higher clock for long-term loads).

    At least that what it sounds like to me.
  • GullLars - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    You really don't need a docking station for that though, i've had a chillpad for my laptop for 2 years, since it overheated the GPU when i played Age of Conan and COD MW2. I can even run GPU and CPU folding@home at the same time when it's on the chillpad and keep CPU under 50C and GPU under 70C. (GPU shuts down from overheating around 85C)
  • uncle29 - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - link

    Adjustable TDP is old news. ThrottleStop has allowed users to adjust this on the 920XM/940XM Extreme mobile CPUs as well as the original Core i5 and Core i7 32 nm CPUs for the last year.

    ThrottleStop 3.00
    http://www.techinferno.com/downloads/?did=1

    The world's fastest Extreme users are all running ThrottleStop and even the low power UM processors have seen performance increases of over 50% while using this little utility to adjust TDP/TDC.
  • ssj4Gogeta - Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - link

    Current mobile processors underclock and undervolt according to the power scheme you set in your OS. So if your processor's TDP is 30W and you've set your processor to throttle down when not in use or when unplugged, it consumes let's say 15W when throttled down.
    So Intel now brands the processor as having 15W TDP, but consuming 30W when plugged, instead of calling it 30W TDP and consuming 15W when unplugged. The only difference seems to be that the change depends on temperature.

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