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Intel Discusses Future Plans

Posted by Zonk on from the they'll-stay-in-the-chip-business dept.

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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  1. the real question is by radicalnerd · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:the real question is by nmb3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

      --
      "What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
      /)
  2. Re:watts, heat ... ahhh no infertility by tktk · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

  3. Argh.. naming... by Oestergaard · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...