Desktop Roadmaps And Pentium Ms go desktop, at last The latest roadmap supplied by Intel to its OEM customers shows that it's now added Conroe microprocessors to its product mix. The Conroe family is slated to enter the desktop fray in the second half of 2006 and these chips will use the 950, 940, 930 and 920 numbers, taking over from other 9XX chips in the Presler range. Presler is slated for introduction in the first quarter of next year, and are built using 65 nanometre process technology. They have two times 2MB of L2 cache, but Conroe processors will come in both two times 2MB and two times 4MB flavours. The same roadmaps seen by the INQ show that Intel will add a Pentium 4 processor numbered 673 later this year. This will be a 3.80GHz microprocessor with a bus speed of 800MHz, 2MB of cache, and supporting VT, HT, EIST, EM64T and the antiviral XD bit. It's a Cedar Mill chip. Meanwhile Intel has confirmed it will produce Yonah dual core CPUs which use the Calistoga chipset family in the first quarter of next year. These will be targeted at the "small form factor", "all in one" and "entertainment PC" markets. Source: The Inquirer
so intels over clock speeds and caches have become its latest obsession, its still not gonna help much in its fight against AMD, their best processor averages out around the performance of a 3700 on socket 939
Well Intel might have something going on there, in the laptop industry anyway, they've got AMD beat there.
Same old same old. Intel have had market dominance in mobile computing for how many years? Its the fact that the Pentium M was such a good chip, and the upcoming Yonah should be excellant. Sine then AMD have had no real competitor for it.
hope the turion starts a revolution tho yeah, even a hard core amd lover like me has to admit that intel's pentium M was pretty good with power and low power/voltage requirement
