2MB P4s are coming!

[Omega65]

According to The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18186) There's news of a Pentium4 with 2MB Cache due in 1H 2005.

Instead, it is releasing chips with 2MB of cache, numbered the 640, the 650, the 660 and the 670.

These chips appear to have Intel's version of "cool and quiet" and no doubt will have the NX flag implemented too.
It looks like the P4 Expensive Edition has become the regular P4

Source: The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18186)

[entropy]

What the hell ... when are they gonna start working with the Dothans?!

[Omega65]

The new Dothan based CPUs arrive in 2006

[Sputnik]

last i checked dothans are in laptops already omega (pentium M 1MB cache)...

based PCs early next year or 2006

[DanG]

last i checked dothans are in laptops already omega (pentium M 1MB cache)...

based PCs early next year or 2006

Aren't the Dothan's 2mb cache? Except the 705, which is only 1mb.

[mmonnin]

I think entropy meant Dothans on the desktops.

[Omega65]

The new Dothan based CPUs arrive in 2006
To Clarify - I'm referring to Intel's Next Gen CPUs, the ones that will replace the P4 Netbust series (pun intended)

Intel prepares to can Pentium 4 (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14257) (02/19/2004)


Luckily, fate will make the Xeon go away, or at least it will merge with the P-M product lines. The next big mobile core is called Merom, and it is not just a tweaked and re-tweaked Banias, it is a completely new core, PM2 (Pentium M 2 (or Dothan 2)) for lack of a better way of putting it. Look for big advances there.

Now, the big news that they are not telling you is that there will be a desktop version of this chip, with all the features one would expect out of a desktop chip. Merom is expected to have large changes to it to make it top the last core by 20-30% clock for clock, basically pummel it senseless. When you pull out the power savings bits, and tweak for speed, not watts, you get more, well, speed.

That is Conroe. It is a desktopified Merom, due out in late 2006. It should be on the same bus as Merom, and as we told you about yesterday, the same bus as the Itanium Mark Undecidedasofnow.


Now what's interesting is the current Dothan core is clock for clock on par with the Athlon 64

Dothan vs The World (http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14233)

[Sputnik]

seeing as it has the same pipe length (roughly the same as the P3) that's not *too* suprising to hear. very welcome news though.