Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

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Have I correctly understood that Intel buy the DTS from NS and put it inside the cpu package? Are you sure?

I thought the DTS sensors are part of the silicon die that Intel fabs produce.

Please clarify, thanks.

I would not claim to be sure about anything intel does.

According to intel slides and papers....several of the transistors on each core function as diodes and are located in potential hots spots, such as L1, DTLB, etc. The Digital sensor then scans each of these diodes on core and reports the highest on each core as core temp. The transistors functioning as diodes on cores, yes no doubt, they should be intel manufactured. The question is who makes the sensor that scans, filters, reads the diodes.

National semiconductor sells intel such sensors for 45nm according to their site, as to what intel does with them, is just an assumption....as always with intel it is reading and guesswork, then intel releasing just enough info...to make you redo everything

But if National's claim is even half true, that it has the only 45nm sensor with logic capable of filtering out the increased noise from the close proximity of the diodes on the 45nm and thus accurately reporting temps across the range to +/- 3C, then if intel is not outsourcing the sensor on desktops, maybe they should be Or maybe intel has caught up with national in sensor tech, and will implement their own accurate one in i7.

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