New Pentium Chipsets Launched

MojoDog writes "Today Intel has officially taken the wraps off their new mainstream Pentium D 820 Processor and i945 Express series chipsets. Additionally, they also cranked up the Pentium 4 6XX sequence line-up to include the new Pentium 4 670 at 3.8GHz. The Pentium D 820 is Intel's new dual core CPU clocked at 2.8GHz, which contains two Prescott cores per die but doesn't support HyperThreading like the Pentium Extreme Edition 840. The i945 is their new mainstream PCI Express based chipset, one version of which has Integrated Graphics and both supporting these new dual core CPUs. Additionally, Intel took their Pentium 4 6XX sequence processor, based on the Prescott 2M core, for a speed bump to 3.8Ghz."

Comments

But you'll be able to buy Athlon 64 X2's first

[Brian Stretch]

according to The Inquirer. They'll do the launch at Computex Taipei next week and be officially buyable on June 7th. Pentium D's (D'oh!) will take a bit longer to reach retail. Something about awaiting approval from the fire marshal, I think. Paper launches are blast furnace CPUs are a bad combination, methinks.

Re:lost again to AMD

[DrSkwid]

how does these INTEL and AMD chips compare to IBM Cell processor

there are all turing machines, therefore equivalent

Re:The editors are just imitating Intel

[chrish]

Clearly a threading error, they didn't protect the post with a mutex.

Hm.

[stonecypher]

So, all "silicon inside" jokes notwithstanding, does that mean that a dual-cpu system would be a Pentium Double D?