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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: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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