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- Virtual Infrastructure Summit At VMWorld 2005
- Pentium, Schmentium: Decoding CPU Names
- Intel's Next-Generation Server Promises
- Intel Moves From Dual Core To Double Core
- A Sneak Peak at Intel's 65 nm Pentium 4
- Dual-Core, Simple Price: Athlon 64 X2 3800+
- A Dissatifying Compromise With AMD's 64 bit Sempron 3400+
- The Athlon 64 FX Overclocked to 3 GHz
- Live Stress Test Rundown: AMD vs. Intel
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12:06 PM - November 21, 2005 by
Bert Töpelt
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: mother, cpu, charts, 2005
Topics: AMD/ATI, Buyer's Guides
Syndication:
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: mother, cpu, charts, 2005
Topics: AMD/ATI, Buyer's Guides
Syndication:
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Two Cores Sharing A Home: The Dual Core 800 Series
| Pentium D 800 Series | |
|---|---|
| 0 | SSE3, TM2, C1E, XD, EMT64 |
In April 2005, the first Intel dual-core processor sample reached our labs. We assume that Intel took this step simply to be able to introduce its dual-core processors before archrival AMD got the chance, knowing well that it wouldn't be able to actually ship any CPUs before its competitor.
Two new chipsets were also unveiled together with the introduction of the Pentium D: the i945D and the i955X.

230 million transistors, 206 mm², 90 nm production process
Initial speculation that this chip would be called the Pentium 5 turned out to be wrong. Instead, Intel replaced the number in the Pentium 4's name with the letter D, as in "dual-core". Thus, the "Pentium D" name was born.
Intel retained its use of model numbers and gave the newest flagship model the 840 moniker.

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