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Let the speculation begin...
Well, I'm just so excited about this. According to <A HREF="http://www.aceshardware.com/read_news.jsp?id=60000430" target="_new">Ace's Hardware</A>, <A HREF="http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Sep/bch20020930016565.htm" target="_new">here</A>, and <A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5638" target="_new"> The Inquirer</A>, The "Pentium 8" is codenamed Nehalem and is due in 2004/2005. Supposedly, it will be made on the 65nm process, and is supposed to further transisition to future processes. The three links that I posted all talk about the same thing, but link to each other. It's interesting to see that 3 familiar tech sites have already posted this. The information originated from a Japanese website. After translating it, I still couldn't get all the text into English. It seems, though, that it says on the website that Prescott will be a P4 core revision "with some small enhacements". It also says that Tejas will be a P4 core revision with some "big enhancements". This means that Intel considered Northwood a small change, while Prescott is considered a moderate change, and finally, Tejas is considered to be a big change. According to the roadmap on the Japanese website, this means that Tejas will be the biggest P4 core revision (compared to Northwood, or Prescott). Also, Doug Carmean, who has been the head of the development team for Nehalem, says they started work on it a year ago. he says it's a: "from scratch approach to microprocessor design." That means Nehalem will be made from scratch, just like Williamette. Intel, can now learn from their mistakes from both the P3 and P4, and put their wisdom into the Pentium 5 (Nehalem). Personally, I think that the Japanese website misinterpreted the P8 code name for the core as Pentium 8. So, Tejas and Prescott will still be P4 core revisions, just as I had imagined. Lets see, that means we're going to see a new core/revision (every year from now up until 2005) from Intel. We got Prescott coming Q3 of next year, Tejas is supposed to be Q2 of 2004, and Nehalem will be probably be Q1/Q2 2005. I doubt that Intel would release Nehalem in Q4 2004, since that would seem like a very early release.
Intel has already stated Itanium is set to go dual-core in 2005, which is supposed to be Chivano.
Nehalem may have all sorts of things, hopefully it may be dual-core, may use Banias power-technology, may use Micro-Ops Fusion, may be entirely 64-bit, may have support for 32/64, I mean it's anyone's guess. No doubt, it'll probably have SSE4, to say the least.
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<font color=green>All good things must come to an end … so they can be replaced by better things!
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Well, I'm just so excited about this. According to <A HREF="http://www.aceshardware.com/read_news.jsp?id=60000430" target="_new">Ace's Hardware</A>, <A HREF="http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Sep/bch20020930016565.htm" target="_new">here</A>, and <A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5638" target="_new"> The Inquirer</A>, The "Pentium 8" is codenamed Nehalem and is due in 2004/2005. Supposedly, it will be made on the 65nm process, and is supposed to further transisition to future processes. The three links that I posted all talk about the same thing, but link to each other. It's interesting to see that 3 familiar tech sites have already posted this. The information originated from a Japanese website. After translating it, I still couldn't get all the text into English. It seems, though, that it says on the website that Prescott will be a P4 core revision "with some small enhacements". It also says that Tejas will be a P4 core revision with some "big enhancements". This means that Intel considered Northwood a small change, while Prescott is considered a moderate change, and finally, Tejas is considered to be a big change. According to the roadmap on the Japanese website, this means that Tejas will be the biggest P4 core revision (compared to Northwood, or Prescott). Also, Doug Carmean, who has been the head of the development team for Nehalem, says they started work on it a year ago. he says it's a: "from scratch approach to microprocessor design." That means Nehalem will be made from scratch, just like Williamette. Intel, can now learn from their mistakes from both the P3 and P4, and put their wisdom into the Pentium 5 (Nehalem). Personally, I think that the Japanese website misinterpreted the P8 code name for the core as Pentium 8. So, Tejas and Prescott will still be P4 core revisions, just as I had imagined. Lets see, that means we're going to see a new core/revision (every year from now up until 2005) from Intel. We got Prescott coming Q3 of next year, Tejas is supposed to be Q2 of 2004, and Nehalem will be probably be Q1/Q2 2005. I doubt that Intel would release Nehalem in Q4 2004, since that would seem like a very early release.
Intel has already stated Itanium is set to go dual-core in 2005, which is supposed to be Chivano.
Nehalem may have all sorts of things, hopefully it may be dual-core, may use Banias power-technology, may use Micro-Ops Fusion, may be entirely 64-bit, may have support for 32/64, I mean it's anyone's guess. No doubt, it'll probably have SSE4, to say the least.
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<font color=green>All good things must come to an end … so they can be replaced by better things!
</font color=green>
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