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Dual-Core Pentium 4 Slated For 2Q 2005

Posted by timothy on from the also-makes-toast dept.

Quantrell writes "Today is the first full day of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, and Intel has announced that dual-core Pentium 4s are coming in the second quarter, one in the Extreme Edition line (no surprise there), and also the Smithfield Pentium 4 800 series, which is the next so-called consumer desktop line. No word on pricing, yet."

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  1. Well Intel I got to hand it to you . . . by OverlordQ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you may come out with dual-cores before AMD, but since your dual-core is a kludge on top of a kludge, I'm guessing AMD will beat you again.

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    1. Re:Well Intel I got to hand it to you . . . by tesmako · · Score: 4, Insightful

      A kludge winning out in the end sure would be consistent with x86 history.

  2. Re:About time... by garcia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, I wasn't so concerned about the price of the chips themselves but in the increase of your electric bill.

    Either the machines will be sucking so much power that your lights will dim while running RC5-72 or your AC will have to be cranking in order to keep the room cool.

  3. Re:Lack of bandwidth? by yamla · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not sure the extra overhead would be worth it. That'd be a heck of a lot of synchronisation to prevent conflicts.

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  4. Re:Lack of bandwidth? by Monkelectric · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's the real problem with hyperthreading. Running 2 processes at once (in the sense that it does, anyways) blows up your cache. You really need 2 seperate caches or a muhc much larger one.

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  5. Re:Lack of bandwidth? by fitten · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Depends what the threads are doing...

  6. Re:About time... by JudahGabriel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Twice the inefficiency! (Score:5, Funny)

    While the parent is modded up as funny, what was said isn't too far from the truth, at least from a software perspective.

    There's a saying that goes: Joe gives a little, John takes a little. In this case, the more hardware improves, the more inefficient software becomes. This process is initiated as developers start ignoring minutia and low-level details of software development, use high-level frameworks, and stop investing time implementing efficient algorithms.

    (yay I'm unbanned from /.)

  7. Re:130 Watts!! by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't 130 still less than the power needed by the latest ATI and nVidia graphics boards?