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Intel Demos New P4 'Extreme Edition'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the extremely-lame-name dept.

typobox43 writes "Louis Burns of Intel displayed a "high-definition video stream running on a 'mystery' desktop processor." This processor turned out to be the new Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.20 GHz, with an extra 2 Megabytes of cache."

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  1. Tom's Hardware reviewed a similar Xeon... by tugrul · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... with 1MB of L3. The results weren't that exciting.

  2. Paper Launch? by Dumass · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not to be labeled a fanboy (although not necessarily denying that status)... but this sounds like a paper launch just to take some press away from AMD.

    "He [Burns] said the chip will be available to buy in the 30-60-day timeframe." from this article.

    Prescott is going to be late and has been getting bad press for not being backward compatible with current motherboards. Why not make some noise with a product that wont be around for another month?