Intel to launch Woodcrest, Conroe and Merom in Q3

[Ryan Norton]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/19/intel_to_ship_core_inq3_2006/

'Santa Clara (CA) - Faced with increasing competitive pressure from AMD, Intel apparently has accelerated its launch schedule of its new Core microarchitecture. While Woodcrest, which will carry the Xeon 5100-series designation, was always scheduled for a Q3 introduction, chief executive Paul Otellini on Wednesday confirmed that the company will also be announcing the desktop processor "Conroe" (Core Duo E4000 and E6000 series) as well as the mobile CPU "Merom" (Core Duo T5000 and T7000 series) in the third quarter. All three variants will be shipping "in volume."'

 

[Keysplayr]

Pretty amazing how six months can turn into 8 to 10 weeks. June is just about six weeks out. My money is ready. Hope Core will be.

I'll say this. If AMD pulls a fast one, and offers something comparable, I might rethink it.
Who knows. By the way guys/gals. I wouldn't have said this if I didn't mean it. So save your wise cracks for another time. (Said with love)

EDIT: Any other sources to refer to? It would have a bit more backbone if another source, besides the inq. has similar info.

 

[Ryan Norton]

Yeah... I wish we had other sources. I know Tom's has a bad rep over here but who knows, maybe they got one right?

The 1st PC I built myself was a P4/865PE system. It wasn't great or anything, but it was better than the family's old P3 Dell I came to college with If the 20% better preview blahblah is true and my next system is Core based, it will come with an extra touch of warm reminiscence over that first POS computer I built.

 

[Markfw]

Q3 could mean Sept 30th. No date on that article that I saw.

 

[BrownTown]

well, all the other articles DO have dates, and they all say Woodcrest = July, Conroe = August/Semptember, Merom = September/October.

Basically we hve known this for 6 months and it hasn't changed, so I don't see why this is big news to anyone. All we've learned is that Woodcrest will launch before Conroe instead of at the same time as previously expected. OF course this makes tons of sense because Intel is taking a beating in server, and wants to stop the loss of marketshare there first, it can ride cheap ass Pentium 900s on desktop for a few months before Conroe comes, and Yonah already dominates anything AMD has planned for the rest of the year, so Merom is only of small priority.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Q3 could mean Sept 30th. No date on that article that I saw.

Whats the other date it could mean Mark.. I didn't see any actual date either, but JUNE/JULY was mentioned. I did not see August nor September in there anywhere.

I kind of agree with BrownTown about the Merom however. No reason to release Merom at the moment when Yonah is doing everything Intel needs it to do. For now.

I could see Intel focusing a bit more on the Woodcrest and Conroe. AMD currently dominates in the server/desktop area, so that is where I would place my focus as well.

 

[Marmion]

But I want Merom, not Yonah
Seriously, I'm going to be getting Conroe to replace my aging Athlon XP 1800 (or Duron 500, one of them is going to go), so it would be quite a jump in performance for me. And maybe I'll considor a new laptop Jan/Feb '07, or wait untill Santa Rosa (800Mhz FSB, that flash on board tech etc etc).

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Q3 could mean Sept 30th. No date on that article that I saw.

Whats the other date it could mean Mark.. I didn't see any actual date either, but JUNE/JULY was mentioned. I did not see August nor September in there anywhere.

I kind of agree with BrownTown about the Merom however. No reason to release Merom at the moment when Yonah is doing everything Intel needs it to do. For now.

I could see Intel focusing a bit more on the Woodcrest and Conroe. AMD currently dominates in the server/desktop area, so that is where I would place my focus as well.

June is not Q3!!! July is start of 3Q....

Well we have been talking about this "6 months" since the beginning of March or about 7-8 weeks ago....add 9-10 weeks to get to first of July (3Q) and you get 4 months...Now if someone was being conservative they could have figured mid 3Q which again makes the "6 months" a reasonable assertion back then...

However I did forget with you Keys, rose glasses for Intel....

Many articles have stated product launch in 3Q with limited availability for a short period....basically launch, then trickle out of Dell systems, and then bigger supply for DIYers....

 

[Marmion]

Apperently, (don't quote me for it though), Intel has already started ramping these Woodcrests and Conroes, so there will actually be immediate availability.
(Take it with a grain of salt because I can't remember where I read it or what the source was.)

 

[Gamer X]

This is gonna be a tough period for AMD; the only selling point for AM2 was that it was still
gonna be the best performing desktop platform on the market.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Q3 could mean Sept 30th. No date on that article that I saw.

Whats the other date it could mean Mark.. I didn't see any actual date either, but JUNE/JULY was mentioned. I did not see August nor September in there anywhere.

I kind of agree with BrownTown about the Merom however. No reason to release Merom at the moment when Yonah is doing everything Intel needs it to do. For now.

I could see Intel focusing a bit more on the Woodcrest and Conroe. AMD currently dominates in the server/desktop area, so that is where I would place my focus as well.

June is not Q3!!! July is start of 3Q....

Well we have been talking about this "6 months" since the beginning of March or about 7-8 weeks ago....add 9-10 weeks to get to first of July (3Q) and you get 4 months...Now if someone was being conservative they could have figured mid 3Q which again makes the "6 months" a reasonable assertion back then...

However I did forget with you Keys, rose glasses for Intel....

Many articles have stated product launch in 3Q with limited availability for a short period....basically launch, then trickle out of Dell systems, and then bigger supply for DIYers....

Try not to bait Duvie.

Sigh:: I said the article mentioned June/July. Never did "June = Q3" exit my fingertips.
I mentioned that June was about six weeks out because the article mentioned it, but never said it was Q3. Oh yeah, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Q3 could mean Sept 30th. No date on that article that I saw.

Whats the other date it could mean Mark.. I didn't see any actual date either, but JUNE/JULY was mentioned. I did not see August nor September in there anywhere.

I kind of agree with BrownTown about the Merom however. No reason to release Merom at the moment when Yonah is doing everything Intel needs it to do. For now.

I could see Intel focusing a bit more on the Woodcrest and Conroe. AMD currently dominates in the server/desktop area, so that is where I would place my focus as well.

June is not Q3!!! July is start of 3Q....

Well we have been talking about this "6 months" since the beginning of March or about 7-8 weeks ago....add 9-10 weeks to get to first of July (3Q) and you get 4 months...Now if someone was being conservative they could have figured mid 3Q which again makes the "6 months" a reasonable assertion back then...

However I did forget with you Keys, rose glasses for Intel....

Many articles have stated product launch in 3Q with limited availability for a short period....basically launch, then trickle out of Dell systems, and then bigger supply for DIYers....

Try not to bait Duvie.

Sigh:: I said the article mentioned June/July. Never did "June = Q3" exit my fingertips.
I mentioned that June was about six weeks out because the article mentioned it, but never said it was Q3. Oh yeah, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not trying to bait you...You are overly optimistic thinking 3Q means at the start, some pessimistically think at the end in Sept...I am just showing when that was the rumored time frame in fact it was close to 6 months to the middle of 3Q....very conservative....could be +/- 1.5 months...seeems reasonable on the quess, an not some AMD fanboy rantings....

 

[MBrown]

So conroe is not the Pentium V?

 

[HopJokey]

Originally posted by: MBrown
So conroe is not the Pentium V?

My guess is that they stick to the "Core" brand. Maybe Core viiv? Who knows. They might call it "Pentium ..." but I doubt it.

 

[degeester]

If they are going to release in Quarter 3, OEM's and the press probably have the chips now for testing. Come on Anand give us some hints NDA or not! Can you even tell us if they are in the lab?

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: MBrown
So conroe is not the Pentium V?

From what I had read Intel?s marketing strategy abandoned the Pentium branding scheme. Therefore ?Core Duo? is akin to ?X2? branding, where as the numbering value equates its actual performance, i.e. T2400, or 3800+ etc

 

[ZimZum]

You would think they could come up with something better than "core duo".

 

[Alaa]

Aug/Sept. this is wut happens most of time..they just state tht its Q(1,2,3,4) and the product comes in the last 2 months.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Funny that they say "due to increasing competitive pressure", yet the pressure's been there for well over a year now. Since AMD launched Athlon64, Intel has consistently had their @sses handed to them in the desktop market (not to mention the server market with AMD's Opterons!).

 

[Topplayer]

will the macbook pro get merom????

 

[JoKeRr]

Yes! b/c Apple will want to stay competitive with rest of the PC industry.

Also Merom should bring 64bit support and additional performance at no extra power consumption, which should compete quite nicely with Turion X2s.

Edit:
Also I bet a lot of engineers is working overtime in the wafer lab to crank out those extra wafers or processors in order to meet the target.

 

[BrownTown]

lol, people don't make wafers, computers and robots do, you just sit back and watch the show (OK, maybe do more than that, but the bottleneck is the crazy expensive machines, not the people). They just gotta hope their yeilds are good, they have what, 3 Fabs on 65nm by now?

 

[Topplayer]

he Inquirer has reported previously that Intel is looking to bring Core to market very aggressively and now Intel themselves have confirmed it.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31316

Woodcrest will ship in June, Conroe in July, and Merom in August. Personally, I'm particularly happy about Merom launching in August instead of Q4 since I'm looking to buy a new notebook. I'll have to see how it compares to the Turion X2 when they are released.

What I found most interesting is that Intel is already working on 2 next generation microarchitectures and plans to release a new one every 2 years. I guess they decided they couldn't just sit around anymore like they did with Netburst.


merom FTW

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: Topplayer
he Inquirer has reported previously that Intel is looking to bring Core to market very aggressively and now Intel themselves have confirmed it.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31316

Woodcrest will ship in June, Conroe in July, and Merom in August. Personally, I'm particularly happy about Merom launching in August instead of Q4 since I'm looking to buy a new notebook. I'll have to see how it compares to the Turion X2 when they are released.

What I found most interesting is that Intel is already working on 2 next generation microarchitectures and plans to release a new one every 2 years. I guess they decided they couldn't just sit around anymore like they did with Netburst.


merom FTW

Launching Merom in August means that they will start shipping to OEMs and ODMs. You should probably bank on the beginning of 07 for the actual laptops...

 

[dmens]

Good point on merom availability in built machines, but yonah is still around. I don't see how dc turions will be able to match the power characteristics of a yonah, never mind a merom, without missing the performance lz. I'd be surprised if intel even sold merom chips on mobile platforms in 2006. They would be much better off flooding the desktop and server markets first.