Intel Discusses Future Plans

heeeraldo writes "Tom's Hardware (unfortunately known for their one-page-stretched-into-nine articles, and endless ads) attended an Intel presentation about their future processor plans. The unsurprising bit: the endless march of additional cores. The surprising part: they're already focusing on 45nm processes." From the article: "Last week, Intel held a series of presentations at its Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, whose facilities represent the main pillar of product design and manufacturing. These presentations included a short tour to the top-notch 65 nm production facility Fab D1D whose specifics Intel is currently replicating to other locations. The primary purpose of this show obviously was to convince around 80 analysts and journalists of the substantial health of Intel's 65 nm fabrication leadership, which is outputting new processors in high volume for launching new Pentium 4 6x1, Pentium D 900 and Core branded (known as Yonah) processors in early 2006."

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the real question is

[radicalnerd]

how is intel planning on confusing customers with their new naming schemes?

Re:the real question is

[nmb3000]

Confusing? Not this time around! Intel marketing has learned it's lesson. These new processors will all have distinct and different names, including:

Pentium I
Pentium Ì
Pentium Í
Pentium Ï
Pentium Î

The new line features the standard, grave, acute, diaeresis, and circumflex models. Very different from one another!

Each processor will serve it's own special purpose and will have the exact same socket configuration. Unfortunately the processors are incompatible from a power standpoint and the mismatching of a processor and motherboard will result in the loss of both.

Re:watts, heat ... ahhh no infertility

[tktk]

This better happen soon or there will be no "geeks, the next generation"(TM)!

But first Intel or AMD will have to design a CPU that will get a geek laid.

Re:It is mostly wrong

[Groo Wanderer]

I guess I must guess well then.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11588
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11668
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25591
There is a ton more, but that is all I feel like looking up for now.

            -Charlie

P.S. You are not that stupid for real, are you?

Argh.. naming...

[Oestergaard]

Who dreamt up the "Core" brand?

It's like when MS picked "SQL server" for their SQL server product.
A: What SQL server are you guys running?
B: Oh, we're using SQL server.
A: Yes, but *which* SQL server? Oracle? Sybase?
B: No, SQL server!
A: Yes but.... doh!

Now that everyone else have been selling multi-core processors for some time, Intel chose to brand their new processor geenration, of all things, "Core".
A: What multi-core processors are you guys using?
B: Oh, we're using multiple Core processors
A: Yes, but *which* multi-core processors?
B: We're using multiple Core processors!
*doh*

Oh dear oh dear...

My personal ad campaign

[LaughingCoder]

In the past year and a half I converted all my home machines (12) over to AMD. Then I put a sticker on my front door - "Intel Outside".

Re:Yes but

[mmkkbb]

But those are SPARCs.

Imagine that Cray decides to make a personal computer. It contains 16 * 800MHz processors executing in parallel, has 800Gb of RAM, 1000Gb of disc storage, 4096 * 4096 pixel screen resolution, does 48-bit 3D graphics in realtime, relies entirely on thought recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $250. What is the first question the computer community asks ?

"It is PC - compatible ?"

Re:How does this affect Mac users?

[Khakionion]

> It seems that the G5 outperforms the Intel lineup on the desktop right now, for Mac users at least.

You're telling me; I bought Tiger from the Apple Store and tried putting it on my P4 Inspiron, and it didn't even boot up.

Maybe those G5 zealots are right, after all.