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At the recent Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Intel firmed up plans for upcoming processors and chipsets. Here is a quick overview.
The Pentium D processor, codenamed Smithfield, is a dual core processor that supports all of the latest technologies including XD and EM64T. It features two 1MB L2 caches. It will require the 955X chipset. It is physically one chip with two execution cores and is manufactured with a 90nm process. Tentative release is during the second quarter of this year.
Next up are Presler and Cedar Mill. Both will have shorted pipeline than current Pentium 4s, feature EM64T and XD, but lack HT. Presler is a dual core processor, but it does it with two physical silicon chips linked together, rather than a single on as in the Smithfield. The Cedar Mill is a single core part and features 2MB of L2 cache. The each of the Presler cores has an independent L2 cache of 2MB, giving the whole processor 4MB of L2 cache. Both processors will be manufactured on a 65nm process, and should be available during the first half of next year.
Finally we have the Yonah, the next generation mobile Pentium. It is very similar to the Cedar Mill processor, except that it will be dual core. The release target is early 2006. |
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