Intel Pentium D To Succeed Intel Pentium 4
Intel Corp. announced at the Intel Developer Forum Spring 2005 that the company’s forthcoming dual-core desktop processors will not be branded as Intel Pentium 4, as previously suggested by media and analysts, but will be dubbed either as Intel Pentium D or Intel Pentium Extreme Edition chips depending on their positioning.
Source: X-Bit LabsWithdrawing from the famous “Pentium 4” brand-name should emphasize the Pentium D is somewhat different from Intel’s well-known desktop central processing units (CPUs). Having two processing engines instead of one Intel Pentium D processors will be capable of running many applications at the same time more efficiently than the Pentium 4, but the latter is likely to have advantage over the former in single-threaded apps because of higher clock-speeds, as the first dual-core microprocessors from Intel Corp. will work at 2.80 – 3.20GHz speeds, much lower compared to 3.80GHz of single-core processors.
Intel’s mainstream dual-core chips for desktops originally code-named Smithfield were projected to be branded as Intel Pentium 4 processors 800-series, but now the chips will be called as Pentium D 800-series. Initial Intel Pentium 800-series central processing units are likely to use 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus, integrate 2MB (1MB per core) L2 cache and utilize LGA775 form-factor. The dual-core desktop processor internally called Smithfield will be made using 90nm process technology, each processing engine will use the same architecture with the current Pentium 4 “Prescott” chip, however, the new central processing unit will feature “arbitration logic that will balance bus transactions between the two CPUs”. Smithfield’s die size is about 206 square millimeters.
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