Intel Roadmap - Workstation / Dual Processor Server / Multi Processor Server
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| Itanium Processor | |
|---|---|
| Q2/01 | Itanium 2/4 MB L3-cache 800 MHz |
| Q4/01 | 'McKinley' pilot run, supported by 870 chipset |
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| Pentium 4 Xeon Processor | |
|---|---|
| May 2001 | Foster 1.7 GHz with 256 kB L2-cache, no L3-cache, supported by 860 chipset |
| Q3/01 | Foster 2 GHz with 256 kB L2-cache, no L3-cache, supported by 860 chipset |
| Q3/01 | Dual-Processor Foster 2 GHz with 256 kB L2-cache, no L3-cache, supported ServerWorks GC-HE chipset |
| Q4/01 | Multi-Processor Foster 1.6 GHz with 512 kB or 1 MB L3-cache, supported ServerWorks GC-HE chipset |
| Q1/02 | Prestonia, supported by 860 for Prestonia chipset |
| Q1/02 | Dual-Processor Prestonia, supported by Plumas chipset, with DDR and Infiniband support |
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| Pentium III Processor | |
|---|---|
| Q2/01 ?? | Tualatin Processor with 512 kB L2-cache |
Explanations
All those code names are a bit confusing and I didn't feel like writing about each product. However, I want to give you a few comments that are hopefully helpful to understand the whole enchilada.
- 'Northwood' will be the next-generation Pentium 4 processor, which will not be backwards compatible with previous Pentium 4 platforms. Northwood is expected in Q3, 2001.
- 'Tualatin' is the next generation Pentium III processor. It will also require a new platform, either the B-step i815 chipset or i830 Almador. The latter seems to have been dropped for desktop systems however and might only appear as i830M in notebooks.
The normal Tualatin for desktop systems is supposed to come with 256 kB second level cache, while the notebook version will have 512 kB. However, there is supposed to be a Socket370-version of 'Tualatin-512' available as well, targeted to dual processor systems.
The roadmap says that Tualatin will be priced higher than Pentium III, but also higher than some Pentium 4 processors. Prices for Tualatin are not available yet, but are expected for March.- 'Foster' is the workstation/server version of the Pentium 4 that we know now. It will be supported by the i860 chipset, which is a workstation version of Intel's 850 chipset. Later there will be Foster processors with integrated third level cache for multi-processor systems. I expect that Foster will receive the official name 'Pentium 4 Xeon'.
- 'Prestonia' is the 'Xeon'-version of 'Northwood' and thus the next-generation workstation/server processor after 'Foster'. It will also be manufactured in 0.13 micron process and it might also require a different socket than 'Foster'.
- The 'Plumas' chipset will probably be the workstation/server version of 'Brookdale', including DDR-SDRAM support, but also dual processor and maybe even MP-support.
So that's it, Intel's latest roadmap. I hope you enjoyed it.
