Intel's Announcement:
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi...light_030916b&
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Intel's Announcement:
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi...light_030916b&
If you notice at www.anandtech.com right below the new P4 announcment they have news that Prescott even with half the cache of this new P4 has more tansistors proving its going to be a major overhaul of the P4. Also they say Prescott is ready to be produced in mass and its yeilds are also high.
So it looks like Intel released this CPU not out of desperation but to win back the hardcore croud right before the scheduled presscott release(which is still on time).
[b]I hope they leave SMP enabled imagine 2x 3.2ghz 800mhz FSB 2.5mb cache on one of those new Asus i875 boards can you say holy ****? ;)
*drools*Quote:
Originally posted by Voodoo 5 5500
[B]If you notice at www.anandtech.com right below the new P4 announcment they have news that Prescott even with half the cache of this new P4 has more tansistors proving its going to be a major overhaul of the P4. Also they say Prescott is ready to be produced in mass and its yeilds are also high.
So it looks like Intel released this CPU not out of desperation but to win back the hardcore croud right before the scheduled presscott release(which is still on time).
I hope they leave SMP enabled imagine 2x 3.2ghz 800mhz FSB 2.5mb cache on one of those new Asus i875 boards can you say holy ****? ;)
Well ok, Maybe it wont be 10 years before I upgrade again :)
How about you set your goal on 10 weeks collosus? Its fair and although it wouldnt be hard for me it might be death defying to some.
What would you call it? The A64 looks like a great product but it is a "rebadged Opteron". Personally, I'm not sure thats a bad comment. (below from AMD's site)Quote:
Originally posted by eshbach
the fact that they call the Athlon64 a "rebadged Opteron" makes me skeptical.
Q: What are the differences between the AMD Athlon 64 and AMD Opteron processors?
A: The upcoming AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 processors are designed for different markets. For the server/workstation market, the AMD Opteron processor will undergo more stringent validation and reliability testing. Another difference will be in the number of HyperTransport links embedded on the chip. The AMD Athlon 64 processor will contain one HyperTransport link offering 6.4 GB/s data transfer while the AMD Opteron processor will offer three links. The processors will also contain different amounts of cache.
Gosh you love to bash Prescott....Quote:
Originally posted by irwincur
The only thing this tells me is that Intel is probably having major problems with Prescott. This being 'plan B',....
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...915183339.html
"Intel will continue to push the CPU core-clocks up and the prices down early next year, as sources close to the semiconductor giant revealed. The mainstream Prescott processor at 2.80GHz will be available for orders at just $178 price-point starting from the 15th of February, whereas the monstrous Prescott 3.80GHz will come in Q2 2004.
You probably know that the next major price reduction will be performed by Intel on the 26th of October, while the pricing of the Pentium 4 processors will remain unchanged after the launch of Prescott processors at 3.20 and 3.40GHz this November. Probably in January Prescott chips at 2.80 and 3.0GHz CPUs will see the light of the day, but they will also not let the Pentium 4 prices down.
The Prescott 3.60GHz chip will debut in late first quarter at $637 if the current plans remain unchainged, the Prescott 3.80GHz processor will be launched on the Q2 2004 at the same price-point."
10 weeks???? In that timeframe, My 2.8c will be discontinued!!! I cannot wait that long!!! I need something new! Processor/Motherboard/Ram something!!!!Quote:
Originally posted by AMDHyp
How about you set your goal on 10 weeks collosus? Its fair and although it wouldnt be hard for me it might be death defying to some.
Intel says 3rd-qtr rev to be $7.6 bln-$7.8 blnQuote:
Originally posted by muzikjunkie
....not enough to be worth the pricetag. what an utter waste, looks like Intel is getting desperate...
September 04, 2003 4:21:00 PM ET
Desperation....
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (INTC), the world's largest maker of semiconductors, on Thursday narrowed its revenue forecast for the third quarter to between $7.6 billion to $7.8 billion, the high end of its latest forecast and even with or above what analysts expect.
On Aug. 22, Intel raised its revenue forecast to between $7.3 billion and $7.8 billion, from an earlier target of $6.9 billion to $7.5 billion. At the time, the company cited stronger than expected demand for its microprocessors, the brains of computers.
Analysts, on average, were targeting third-quarter revenue of $7.6 billion, according to Reuters Research, a unit of Reuters Group Plc.
The chip industry is seeing signs of a recovery following its worst downturn ever that came amid an economic downturn and slump in corporate spending. REUTERS
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept 16 (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (INTC), the world's largest chip maker, on Tuesday outlined plans for two new chips that will have two or more processors on a single piece of silicon, boosting the performance of corporate server computers.
The new chips are a 32-bit Xeon server processor MP, code-named "Tulsa," which will be its first dual-core chip, and a new 64-bit Itanium server chip, code-named "Tanglewood," Intel President Paul Otellini said in his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum.
Tanglewood will come some time after 2005 and Tulsa in two to three years, he said.
In an interview, Otellini declined to say what plans Intel has for bringing 64-bit chips to PCs. Currently, its chips for PCs crunch 32 bits of data at a time.
"The production operating systems are not there yet" for 64-bit desktop computers, he said. "The mainstream applications won't exist until next year."
Well I must say I'm still in shock about this new CPU.
When I read the headline on Anandtech I thought it was some joke.
I think this a good move for Intel as they are starting to put alittle focus on us hardcore gamers. We might even start to see some Intel boards with overclocking features(you never know) I will defenetley be lined up to buy this sucker ;)
Hmmm, this is an interesting move by Intel, totally unexpected!
I guese they realsed that a 2.2GHz A64 FX would have beaten the P4 3.2GHz quite comprehensively in gaming benchmarks, this move looks like nothing more than a counter of the A64 FX IMO. And a good one at that, though I wouldn't wanna think of the price! With a 3.2C already at $600+, this could easily push the price past $700+! Ouch!
Then again, it is supposed to compete with the high end A64 FX, which sources indicate are gonna cost around $700 anyway, so I guess you can't really blame Intel for charging these prices.
Processor wars are at it again
"the chip would sport a 800MHz frontside bus allied to the 2.5MB L3 of cache in total."
An L3 cache? Will this be the first cpu w/ and L3 cache?
The Xeon 2.0ghz with 2mb of L3 cache starts $3,000us per chip so considering this new P4 has the same cache plus a higher bus and an extra 1200mhz all for under $1000 per chip is very impressive.Quote:
Originally posted by azns_kickass
Hmmm, this is an interesting move by Intel, totally unexpected!
I guese they realsed that a 2.2GHz A64 FX would have beaten the P4 3.2GHz quite comprehensively in gaming benchmarks, this move looks like nothing more than a counter of the A64 FX IMO. And a good one at that, though I wouldn't wanna think of the price! With a 3.2C already at $600+, this could easily push the price past $700+! Ouch!
Then again, it is supposed to compete with the high end A64 FX, which sources indicate are gonna cost around $700 anyway, so I guess you can't really blame Intel for charging these prices.
If they released this chip as a Xeon it woulld easily be worth 4,000-6,000us. Basicaly your getting a 4-6,000 dollar cpu for under $1000 ****ing impressive if you ask me.
This will be the first consumer desktop chip to have a online L3 cache but the Xeon and Itanium have had L3 caches for somtime now.Quote:
Originally posted by Dude
"the chip would sport a 800MHz frontside bus allied to the 2.5MB L3 of cache in total."
An L3 cache? Will this be the first cpu w/ and L3 cache?
Strange it's true after all.Quote:
Originally posted by skufft
Intel's Announcement:
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi...light_030916b&
Did they mention a release date?