Intel Pentium-M processors

[HyTekJosh]

Does anyone know if Intel plans on releasing any new P-M processors within the near future? I heard that the P-M is just around the corner. Does anyone have an expected release date for this? What about comparisons of the P-M 1.7GHz versus the P-M 1.8GHz?

Thank you.

 

[SickBeast]

I heard something about this Monday for the 'Dothan' Pentium-M chips. Soon enough all of intel's desktop CPUs will be based on the Pentium-M, as they abandoned the P4 platform.

 

[HyTekJosh]

I wonder how long it will take Dell to get the 1.8 P-M into their notebooks. I need to order a new notebook soon.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

yes, the Dothan is right around the coner but they make a fair amount of extra heat so most of the exsisting laptop designs first have to be revamped to handle the extra heat.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i hear their next dual core cpu will be based of of the centrino Pm work

 

[zephyrprime]

They're releasing the dothan on monday I believe.

yep, monday

 

[Soulkeeper]

hahaha that would be a suprise

 

[Wahsapa]

its a very interesting cpu to get excited over

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Wahsapa
its a very interesting cpu to get excited over

Especially since the Pentium M is more Athlon-like than the Pentium 4 is/was 😀

*EDIT* Sorry... I don't mean to be AMD fanboyish... I just find it a little amusing that everyone who was excited about 5 Ghz Pentium 4's based on the Prescott core will have to settle for something closer to 2 Ghz with model numbers 🙂 I also find it amusing that Intel, the king of "bigger is better," is now following AMD's footsteps in looking for more efficient processors.
One could argue that Intel knew this would happen all along, and the first Pentium M's were basically Intel testing the market with these lower clocked, but more efficient processors... and Intel realized there would be a need for parallel processing, and brought Hyper-Threading to the desktop in preparation for dual core CPU's. And all that might be true... they may have anticipated the need for both of those things and started to familiarize themselves with it, and prepare the market for it... but it sounds to me like they were caught with their pants down and their dingy in their hands seeing as how they scrapped the Prescott and Tejas (according to what I've read) which were supposed to be wonderful cores.

I'm trying to think... when was the last time CPU's took about a 30% decrease in speed in favor of efficiency?

 

[LTC8K6]

Dothan is supposed to be very cool running.