The recent IDF Taiwan developer's forum yielded a very interesting demonstration of Intel's new mobile quad-core CPUs, just in time for their planned mass-production in 2008. The new quad-core chip is powered by 840 million transistors and uses a power envelop of 45W, which will pose a problem to laptop battery life.

Intel's new chip, slated to be included in Intel's Core 2 Extreme series, is still in its early stages but it was able to run Enemy Territory: Quake Wars by id Software for the PC quite flawlessly during the keynote speech delivered by Mooly Eden, vice president of Intel.

The mobile quad-core chip is still in need of a better cooling system, however, but Eden stated in his keynote presentation that they are doing something about the cooling technology, and Intel already has a new strategy in cooling notebooks. Said cooling strategy will involve using the same cooling method used in compressors in refrigerators and air conditioners.