Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets

Posted by timothy on Monday March 21, 2005 @03:33PM from the that-sounds-like-it-would-break-them dept.

ThinSkin writes "Nearly 18 months after rival AMD released its 64-bit processors, Intel quietly added its first 64-bit Pentium 4 microprocessors to the market on Sunday. Four versions of the Intel Pentium 4 6XX series were announced at speeds up to 3.6-GHz, a frequency grade lower than the existing 5XX series. Prices will range from $224 to $605. Intel also added the 3.73-GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition to its lineup, a $999 chip that is fabricated on a finer 90-nm process than its older 130-nm P4EE components. As Slashdot previously reported, the 64-bit series will likely be the major enhancement to the Pentium 4 line before the introduction of the Pentium D "Smithfield," Intel's first dual-core part, which is slated for next quarter."

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First Post! by Sinistrad_D · 2005-03-21 15:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Can it be a possible first post!!

By the way I have been using AMD for a long time now and it reflects well on Intel that they finally have to play catch up.
FP! by CyberBill · 2005-03-21 15:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First Processor!!!

(Of course I'm sure this is like 3rd now... damn 20 seconds)

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Quietly added? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-21 15:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

There goes the neighbourhood
Re:ExTREmE! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-21 15:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This is the kind of extreme they mean.