Quote Viditor                                              One last note...Intel's planned quad cores are not integrated. They will be similar to Smithfield in that they will be 2 Woodcrest chips glued together. In addition, they will still be utilizing the FSB model instead of ptp...this means that the bandwidth of 4 cores will all have to fit on a 1066MHz FSB. This will be a HUGE bottleneck! 
Towards 2007/2008, they will probably move it to the Whitefield's platform (with the CSI ptp), and that will be when we see it perform properly///////// ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Actuall the newcastle dual FSB is rather fast the reviewers are really impressed. Using Paxville Cpu's
These chips are going to give AMD a very hard time. They do almost everything right,
Cloverton
. It is a four core, two Woodcrest die MCM, and it is slated for Q4 2006, probably early in that quarter. There was a JAB version on the drawing board, but that would have delayed it until after the quad K8, and that is unacceptable to Intel, so they are pulling it in at the cost of performance. I still am of the opinion that AMD will pip them with a quad core K8 even if volumes are not great. We will see. Is it really going to be a woodcrest glued to gether I don't think so. Why would Intel glue together 4 cores when the P6 core was all ready 4core ready? Woodcrest is a merom correct
Also the yonah based Sossaman is also said to have a 4 core brother. why would intel do this? Research they can get the work done now and go from there.
Your also forgetting about Paxville. Here ya go it didn't come out of my hat but its a good link
       
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25439
			
			Towards 2007/2008, they will probably move it to the Whitefield's platform (with the CSI ptp), and that will be when we see it perform properly///////// ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Actuall the newcastle dual FSB is rather fast the reviewers are really impressed. Using Paxville Cpu's
These chips are going to give AMD a very hard time. They do almost everything right,
Cloverton
. It is a four core, two Woodcrest die MCM, and it is slated for Q4 2006, probably early in that quarter. There was a JAB version on the drawing board, but that would have delayed it until after the quad K8, and that is unacceptable to Intel, so they are pulling it in at the cost of performance. I still am of the opinion that AMD will pip them with a quad core K8 even if volumes are not great. We will see. Is it really going to be a woodcrest glued to gether I don't think so. Why would Intel glue together 4 cores when the P6 core was all ready 4core ready? Woodcrest is a merom correct
Also the yonah based Sossaman is also said to have a 4 core brother. why would intel do this? Research they can get the work done now and go from there.
Your also forgetting about Paxville. Here ya go it didn't come out of my hat but its a good link
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25439
				
		
			