Ingen "Extreme Edition" af Prescott

Intel vil ikke lancere en "Extreme Edition" af deres kommende "Prescott" kerne. Dermed bliver den sidste Pentium 4 EE i denne omgang, en 3.4 GHz version af Intel's nuværende "Gallatin" kerne.

The Pentium 4 Extreme Edition microprocessors called as Pentium 4 XE or Pentium 4 EE by the hardware community are based on the 0.13 micron core designed for multi-processor servers called ?Gallatin?. Originally announced in Q4 2002, Gallatin Xeon MP processors with large level three caches are generally expected to serve Intel?s IA32 MP servers till very late 2004 or early 2005.

Instead of producing server chips using a young 90nm fabrication technology, Intel will strengthen its MP family of 32-bit microprocessors with three introductions next year. In the first quarter of 2004 the Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor manufacturer will roll-out the Xeon MP processor with 4MB of L3 cache clocked at 3.0GHz. Moreover, in order to strengthen the overall family, the company is rumored to add 2.70GHz and 2.20GHz Xeon MP chips into the lineup. The Xeon MP 3.0GHz 4M part ? presumably based on the Gallatin 4M core ? will be Intel?s top IA32 offering for 4P/8P platforms and will be quoted at $3692. The 2.20GHz and 2.70GHz models will complement existing Xeon MP processors at 2.80GHz and 2.0GHz with 2MB L3 caches. The new parts will be priced at $1177 and $1980 respectively.

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