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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. What kind of sockets will there take? by lhaeh · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't remember reading about anything new, but I can't see these working on cuttent chipsets.

    1. Re:What kind of sockets will there take? by lhaeh · · Score: 0, Troll

      It says new chipsets, not new sockets. There is the posability that it will use LGA775.

      but wait, this is slashdot. Where posting comes before reading.
      Like reading my question? :)

  2. Re:Lack of bandwidth? by lhaeh · · Score: 0, Troll

    More cache would help too. It would be a good idea if they somehow got the processors to share cache. If they are both working on the same thing it would mean a big performance increase.

  3. Re:Lack of bandwidth? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Rewritten with proper grammar and spelling:

    While dual processors are great and all, I'd rather see double the memory bandwidth than double the processing power. In the case of Intel processors (especially duals) memory bandwidth is severely lacking, and while DDR-2 should help a bit, I don't expect to be that impressed with the new dual cores.