Intel at it again..

[P4Man]

Doesn't seem likely, does it ? Intel officially said they canned it, why would they do that if they merely renamed it ? Anand is probably confused; netburst aint dead yet, and some of the features originally reserved for Tejas are being brought to Prescott (2MB cache, 1066 MHz FSB,..). Prescott core is dead, even the team is dismantled which is all the proof I need.

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[Kanavit]

Prescott aint dead yet either!
Intel plans to bring dual cored Prescott netburst architecture to the world. Hyperthreading means 4 logical CPUS in windows xp.

<A HREF="http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040610151158.html" target="_new">http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040610151158.html</A>


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[Mephistopheles]

They could just put two northwood execution cores with the amount of transistors there are in prescott. Just imagine if Prescott was in fact a dual-core northwood....

But instead, Intel seems to have crammed a lot of transistors which are useless for the end user as of now. I mean, logic transistor count more than doubled from NW to Prescott, and where are the benefits?... (except as a heater)... I can't even be convinced that two revamped NW cores would have much more than the thermal output of a single prescott core...

<i><font color=red>You never change the existing reality by fighting it. Instead, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete</font color=red> - Buckminster Fuller </i>

 

[Zoron]

Prescott core is dead, even the team is dismantled which is all the proof I need.

Errr... you meant to say Tejas, right? I mean if Prescott were dead... Intel wouldn't still be producing it.



(Technically I suppose you could say it is dead... since so far it hasn't been the stellar success everyone was hoping for).

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[P4Man]

>Errr... you meant to say Tejas, right?

Yes, obviously.. too much booze, not enough sleep

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[P4Man]

>They could just put two northwood execution cores with the
>amount of transistors there are in prescott.

yeah, but it wouldnt be as small, and it wouldn't support EM64T. Two damn good reasons not to.

> I can't even be convinced that two revamped NW cores would
>have much more than the thermal output of a single prescott
>core...

You're stretching here. NW is a decent amount cooler, but definately not 2x. Do the math if you like, compare Banias with Dothan to see what 130nm->90nm brings, apply that to NW's numbers, I don't think you'll get close to your estimate.


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