OK, the Northwood is at 3.4GHz. Tejas is next year. Prescott was given a bunch of extra stages so it could clock higher...wait!
Northwood is at 3.4GHz. Don't give me any BS about putting an old design on a smaller process, we all know fixing those issues is still FAR less expensive than developing a new core.
Once 90nm is mostly debugged (by the end of the year), it will allow processors to clock 50% higher than 130nm. That would have taken the elderly Northwood core to 5GHz.
Wait, wasn't 5GHz the limit for Prescott? What's going on here?
Intel could have moved Northwood to 90nm and fixed the bugs just as easily as fixing the manufacturing problems with the Prescott design. So what's the point?
Intel COULD have kept the Northwood until Tejas. This shouldn't be hard to see. They WILL have a pinless Northwood P4EE for the new socket. So it's not a socket issue either. So why the heck did they even bother developing the Prescott?
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Northwood is at 3.4GHz. Don't give me any BS about putting an old design on a smaller process, we all know fixing those issues is still FAR less expensive than developing a new core.
Once 90nm is mostly debugged (by the end of the year), it will allow processors to clock 50% higher than 130nm. That would have taken the elderly Northwood core to 5GHz.
Wait, wasn't 5GHz the limit for Prescott? What's going on here?
Intel could have moved Northwood to 90nm and fixed the bugs just as easily as fixing the manufacturing problems with the Prescott design. So what's the point?
Intel COULD have kept the Northwood until Tejas. This shouldn't be hard to see. They WILL have a pinless Northwood P4EE for the new socket. So it's not a socket issue either. So why the heck did they even bother developing the Prescott?
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