Intel Begins Production Of Dual-Core Pentiums

KingFishKingFish
edited February 2005 in Science & Tech
Intel on Monday announced that it has begun production of its first dual-core processors, and revealed plans to deliver two separate Pentium-class products in the second quarter.
The new processors are designed with two processor cores in a single chip. The first dual-core products will be a Pentium 4 and a Pentium Extreme Edition. The Extreme Edition processor will include hyperthreading technology, which lets the device process four software "threads" simultaneously, according to Intel.

The two processors are the first of many multicore processors that Intel has planned. Intel has more than 10 multicore projects under way, Robert Cooke, VP of Intel's Desktop Platforms Group, said in a statement. "In addition to our products, we're investing heavily to further prepare the industry for the shift to multi-core computing platforms," Cooke said.
Source: Information Week

Comments

  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited February 2005
    too bad this multicore project sucks. all that it is is 2 prescott cores with minimal bus arbitration logic, with a total of 6.4GB/sec of bandwidth between the two: basically a hack to keep up with the perverbial "Joneses" (AMD). We all know that a P4 needs a constant supply of data and instructions or it will just run painfully slowly, and that's exaclty what's gonna happen with this chip. Their second round (sorry, but don't remember the codenames for them) chip based on the p4 isn't soo bad. Its basically 2 completely independent cores (very little arbitration) that was (is being) designed correctly. This chip shouldn't suck (well, shouldn't suck as in good for a P4). The Pentium M (P3) based ones are going to be amazing. i can't wait for one of them to go into a laptop.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited February 2005
    I think you mean Northwood.

    I wonder if they will be advertising these new dual-core CPUs as the best gaming chips available because they wont be even the best from Intel. They will be lower clocked to keep heat down at first and its not like games are that threaded to take advantage of the dual-cores.

    I just posted in the Cell Processor new thread and this would not be a good application for those processors. All the threading would have to be done by the programmers since the logic wont be onboard the CPU.
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