Intel scraps 2Ghz P4 Xeon, 2.2 GHz Northwood Xeon to launch early Q1 2002

[AGodspeed]

Go here to read about it. Here's a little tid bit.

The switch in manufacturing allows Intel to improve other architectural features of Prestonia as well. The chip will come with 512KB of integrated secondary cache, a reservoir of memory that stores data for quick access. The canceled chip, part of the Foster generation, would have had 256KB of secondary cache. Increasing the size of the cache typically improves performance. Both Foster and Prestonia are based on the Pentium 4 core.

Sweetness!!

 

[KpocAlypse]

hum, i guess sweetness, but i'm not seeing how the process will boost the speed of the Xeon. I was kinda hoping for a few more Badarse improvements..
It seems too much like a northwood with SMP ability, and thats it(to me)

 

[dullard]

Your title seems a little misleading. I've been waiting for the dual 2.0 GHz Xeon to compliment my current dual 1.7 GHz Xeon. However, the article stated that they will sell a dual 2.0 GHz Xeons just not the server (more than 2 processor) version.