"The Next Big O/C Opportunity, Maybe, But"
mmonnin
Centreville, VA
http://www.overclockers.com/articles807/
PC Watch Japan has a picture of an Intel roadmap through 2004 (it's towards the bottom of the page).
It shows that Prescott will come out in 2.8GHz and 3GHz versions in the first quarter, 2004. These will be the "OEM" CPUs; the next generation 1.6A and 1.8As.
This means Intel fans could have something new to do then.
If, Maybe, But . . .
Prescott is going to have a pretty short useful life: a year. It's not going to scale very much. Actually, it's not going to scale much at all, from 3.4GHz to just 4.0GHz in a year's time.
Then Intel will move to Tejas.
This is not exactly a robust ramping schedule. In fact, it's the smallest ramp percentage-wise after a die shrink in recent Intel history, just 15%.
PC Watch Japan has a picture of an Intel roadmap through 2004 (it's towards the bottom of the page).
It shows that Prescott will come out in 2.8GHz and 3GHz versions in the first quarter, 2004. These will be the "OEM" CPUs; the next generation 1.6A and 1.8As.
This means Intel fans could have something new to do then.
If, Maybe, But . . .
Prescott is going to have a pretty short useful life: a year. It's not going to scale very much. Actually, it's not going to scale much at all, from 3.4GHz to just 4.0GHz in a year's time.
Then Intel will move to Tejas.
This is not exactly a robust ramping schedule. In fact, it's the smallest ramp percentage-wise after a die shrink in recent Intel history, just 15%.
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