Intel Plans for Dual-Core Prescott CPUs in 2005

scapermoya writes "X-Bit Labs is reporting that Intel is planning to step up their introduction of dual-core processors, with the first chips to hit the market in late 2005. Intel announced this plan at the Technology for Business Today seminar, held in Washington, D.C. Looks like NetBurst is sticking around, despite what we have heard lately about a move toward the 'M' architecture. Supposedly, thanks to HyperThreading, the OS will see 4 installed processors. Snazzy."

Comments

Damn

[Anonymous Coward]

Two core dumps for each segmentation fault.

Longhorn won't see 4

[frs_rbl]

Thanks to patented HyperSlowing(TM) technology, Longhorn won't see 4 processors but 1.

''And not a very fast one'' a company exec was quoted saying

Dancing Techs

[Anonymous Coward]

What happened to the days of the intel dudes dancing around in bunny suits?

Cool :)

[execom]

I mean, Hot !

Will it come with the Prescott Survival kit ?

But you should see the heatsinks

[Groo Wanderer]

I caught a pic of the heatsink for this beast at Computex, so it must be real.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16426

-Charlie

(for the humor impared, think humor - haha, not humor - I don't get it)

Re:Heat?

[mobiux]

Intel...

Fighting the next Ice Age since 1968.

Re:Windows Licencing

[AliasTheRoot]

I think they will stick to physical CPU's tbh, the low hanging fruit for chip makers in terms of performance seem to be multiple cores rather than increasing clockspeed, i just dont see MS saying to Joe Consumer "well your single CPU has 8 cores so you need to buy 8 copies of Windows."

Licensing may be different for Server installs, but for consumer/desktop Windows I doubt it.