Intel Pentium 4 6xx Roadmap Revealed

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
Anandtech has the lowdown on the roadmap for the Intel 4 6xx desktop processors.
Although we are always excited to see new processor lineups from Intel, this weeks APAC roadmap showed us the most ambitious processor rollout since Prescott. For starters, Intel will release 4 new SKUs of Socket 775 processors based on 2MB L2 cache revisions of the Prescott core. However, the new 6xx processors are not just Prescotts with extra L2 cache slapped on them. In fact, the most interesting addition we noted with these new processors is the addition of Enhanced Speed Step Technology (EIST, also known as ESS depending on your circles). Up until now, EIST has been limited only to Pentium M processors. For those not familiar with EIST, it is simply a feature which allows a user to dynamically clock the processor during operation; very much like AMD's Cool 'n Quiet. This would certainly be a welcomed addition to the NetBurst architecture as cooling issues are more and more prevalent as Prescott ramps up.
Source: Anandtech
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