Intel Prescott will have Hyperthreading 2

[bgeh]

from our favourite rumour mill, The Inquirer
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INTEL'S NEXT PROCESSOR, codenamed Prescott, will come with Hyperthreading 2 according to Juergen Thiel, the company's European Union Managing Director. He also attempted to squash recurring rumours of Intel taking on AMD's x86-64 technology.
No details have appeared on Hyperthreading 2 though some have speculated it might involve more than two 'virtual' processors on a single chip. Thiel let the information slip to the German site tecChannel. Intel's Prescott is due to debut in Q4 this year on a 90nm process at more than 3.4GHz and with an FSB of 800MHz.

Thiel also stressed that the 64bit desktop is not anywhere in Intel's plans. This would seem to be an attempt to play down rumours that the much reported Yamhill project is not an x86-64 processor.

The x86-64 denials leave a large question mark hanging over Intel as to what competition they will be able to offer against the Clawhammer/Athlon 64 when it is finally released. Both tecChannel and ourselves suspect that Intel's plans will start to become more apparent at this month's Intel Developer Forum. You can find the original article in German here. µ

hope this is not a repost
did a search for it but found nothing

 

[ScrewFace]

Sounds about right except the Pentium4 Northwood (.13m) will hit 3.6GHz before the .09m Prescott debuts at 3.8GHz by this Christmas (or Mithramas for those who like the truth).🙂

 

[oldfart]

Prescott looks really nice. HT 2, .09u, 800 MHz FSB and I hear 1 Meg of L2. Plop that in a Canterwood DC DDR board, and you will hae a pretty sweet rig. Only downside is 800 MHz FSB doesn't leave much room for overclocking. You would need ram that has at least PC3500 capability if you are to overclock one of these.

 

[HokieESM]

oldfart: yes, Prescott sounds very nice. Of course, we're getting to the speeds where overclocking might be remotely silly. Especially without watercooling. And the RAM development really needs to speed up. Yellowstone, DDRII.... we need more bandwidth!

I personally would like to see Intel (and AMD) do something about processors that give off a light bulb's worth of power. A Banias desktop, anyone? I have multiple computers, and I don't need all of them to be raging speed-demons (just one, usually)... a reasonably fast Banias desktop that could be cooled with minimal work (and virtual silence) would be perfect. And from what I've seen, Banias will be quite fast. I've heard to imagine a P3-S with 1MB of cache and speeds approaching 2GHz.

 

[yhelothar]

try 1600+ palominos.. those run REALLY cool.. especially if you have an AGOIA Y, they will run at stock speeds @ only 1.4V... which puts out virtually no heat at all..

sledge hammer already has 2 cores on it.. not even virtual.. this doesn't look very impressive to me, unless if they have a huge change over the northwood..

 

[Blain]

Add "Strained Silicon" to the list of the Prescott's Pros.

 

[oldfart]

Moore's Law has worked so well, though, that engineers now find themselves butting up against the laws of physics. For instance, the gate oxide on chips made on the 90-nanometer process, which separates the subelements of a transistor, will measure only five atoms across.

Yowzers! :Q

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Anyone know what the planned Vcore for the mobile version will be? I'm thinkin' we will get some excellent battery life from that badboy.

 

[zsouthboy]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Anyone know what the planned Vcore for the mobile version will be? I'm thinkin' we will get some excellent battery life from that badboy.

Battery life? LOL Stick a mobile version in your desktop mobo.... w00tness :Q

😀

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I was just lookin' around it appears that intel will use Banias (mobile specific) in combination with other improvements and call it Intel® Centrino? mobile technology., BTW you guys play with them in your desktop, I like having a true mobile chip and the benefits of it's power saving features in my notebook, my XP2000+ t-bred is schweet! I can watch LOTR on one charge (not extended version) 😀

 

[bgeh]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
I was just lookin' around it appears that intel will use Banias (mobile specific) in combination with other improvements and call it Intel® Centrino? mobile technology., BTW you guys play with them in your desktop, I like having a true mobile chip and the benefits of it's power saving features in my notebook, my XP2000+ t-bred is schweet! I can watch LOTR on one charge (not extended version) 😀

yup, but the real one that i am waiting for is dothan, the 0.09 micron succesor to the banias
but i'll have to convince my parents to buy it for me

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Thanx bgeh 🙂 That's the name I needed to find the info I was after! Looks like once they release the Dothan the Banias will hit the price point I'm after for the speed I want if the estimations/approximations hold up.

 

[bgeh]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Thanx bgeh 🙂 That's the name I needed to find the info I was after! Looks like once they release the Dothan the Banias will hit the price point I'm after for the speed I want if the estimations/approximations hold up.

you're welcome
🙂