Intel spills beans on Core 2 successor: SSE4, faster virtualization, bigger caches

GutterPunk · Mar 29, 2007, 11:47 AM

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Penryn's improvements: SSE4 support, better virtualization

Penryn's back end boasts two major advances over its predecessor. First is a new radix-16 divider that offers a 2x performance improvement on division operations vs. Core 2 Duo. The fast divider also speeds up a range of operations that depend on the divider hardware, like the square root function. Penryn's SQRT operation is 4x the speed of Core 2.

**Iria** · Mar 29, 2007, 10:48 PM

Thanks for the submission, but there's a story already posted to the front page that covers the same topic.