this article is misleading and the author obviously doesn't kno what he's talking about. yes, there is an "E" version of yonah that will consume over 49watts but the standard "T" version will have consumption inline with current intel offerings.

Hmmmm... two cores... twice the heat output... imagine that!

"Intel’s Dual-Core Mobile Chips to Consume More Power" ...gee...imagine that. :P

Did anyone else get irritated by the word "peculiarities" with regards to the P6 core? It is misused, and implies something negative while it is arguably one of the best x86 processors ever made. Peculiarities? What is so peculiar about the P6?

I agree with the previous two comments, twice the power with twice the processor cores running at the same clock speed is not that unusual. Also, keep in mind the 2.16 x 2 has a maximum of 49 watts, not over 50. That is the for the E class, and they do not reveal the clock speeds for that. A 2.16 GHz Pentium M would rape anything AMD or Intel has at 49 watts, nothing even comes close to that type of speed per watt.

AMD and Intel had to seriously downclock their dual core processors, vis-a-vis their single cores, to exhibit less than doubling the maximum power usage. They had to, they could not handle it. The Pentium M can, so they do not have to downclock it to make it feasible. That is hardly negative.

The "E" family will hopefully be for the desktop, where low power is less important. In this light, they can use more than 50 watts without anyone blinking. This would seem low by comparison with competing products, and would be very,very attractive. It would help them win educated consumers, who by now realize the Pentium 4 is not a good purchase. The interesting thing is that with dual cores the Pentium M would benefit much more than the Athlon 64, which is much less efficient and is clock speed limited by the heat dissipation. It could be that the Athlon 64 single cores are very competitive with the Pentium M single cores, but in dual core configurations it falls short because the clock speed is limited more by heat dissipation.

Either way, this should be a very good product. Low power usage with that type of processing power is very attractive.

Actually P-M's and A64's (1m cache versions) perform about the same at the same clockspeed. Since both will be going dual core in the mobile arena I'd expect that to continue. The question will be which will do better in clockspeed and there are voices on both sides of that fence shouting loudly.

Honestly Yonah has 2 weaknesses. If it follows the P-M performance will drop dramatically when the cache is exceeded, and it won't have 64 bit nor will 64 bit be an upgrade option for Napa (first version) platforms.

Still it should do well :) and its night and day better than a P4.

This is the chip I'm waiting on to transition over mainstream notebook which will allow me to play mainstream titles and weigh around 5-6lbs.