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To: firthoffourth who wrote (196745)	5/14/2006 4:46:59 PM
From: eracer	Respond to of 275872

Re: The T in Merom's model numbering denotes a power consumption range of 25-55W (not including the memory control hub). Doesn't 55W seem a little high for a mobile part? It is the same T used in Core Duo. They don't use 55W and have a TDP rating of 31W. All of the Merom CPUs are expected to have a 35W TDP at launch. Tech Report has a nice power consumption chart for 2.16GHz Core Duo T2600 versus single-core Turions and other CPUs here: techreport.com Under load, the Core Duo is running two threads here and producing an entire frame in roughly half the time of the Turion 64 or the Pentium M, yet its power consumption is nearly the same as the other mobile systems'. That works out to about twice the performance per watt from the Core Duo as from the Pentium M 760 or the Turion 64. Incredible. Not bad for a T part.