Dothan Over Netburst: Is The Pentium 4 A Dead End?
What It Shares With The Pentium 4
Both processors use a very similar bus protocol. The maximum frequency of the P4's front side bus is 200 MHz, while that of the Pentium M currently tops out at 133 MHz. In both cases, information is transferred four times per clock cycle, which is called quad data rate or QDR; Intel calls this a quad-pumped bus. The core voltages are also nearly identical: the P4 Prescott requires 1.4 V while the Pentium M Dothan runs at 1.35 V.
All Pentium M processors include support for MMX, SSE and SSE 2. The SSE 3 instruction set will only be incorporated into the next processor generation, as will the EM64T extension (Extended Memory 64 Technology) that is required for use with Windows XP x64 Edition.
| Pentium-M I915M (Sonoma) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | Clock Speed | L2-Cache | Bus | Die | Power (TDP) |
| Pentium M 770 | 2.13 GHz | 2 MB | 533 MHz | 90 nm | 27 W |
| Pentium M 760 | 2.00 GHz | 2 MB | 533 MHz | 90 nm | 27 W |
| Pentium M 750 | 1.86 GHz | 2 MB | 533 MHz | 90 nm | 27 W |
| Pentium M 740 | 1.73 GHz | 2 MB | 533 MHz | 90 nm | 27 W |
| Pentium M 730 | 1.60 GHz | 2 MB | 533 MHz | 90 nm | 27 W |
| Celeron M 370 | 1.50 GHz | 1 MB | 400 MHz | 90 nm | 21 W |
| Pentium-M I855M (Carmel) | |||||
| Processor | Clock Speed | L2-Cache | Bus | Die | Power (TDP) |
| Pentium M 765 | 2.10 GHz | 2 MB | 400 MHz | 90 nm | 21 W |
| Pentium M 755 | 2.00 GHz | 2 MB | 400 MHz | 90 nm | 21 W |
| Pentium M 745 | 1.80 GHz | 2 MB | 400 MHz | 90 nm | 21 W |
| Pentium M 735 | 1.70 GHz | 2 MB | 400 MHz | 90 nm | 21 W |
| Pentium M 725 | 1.60 GHz | 2 MB | 400 MHz | 90 nm | 21 W |
| Pentium M 715 | 1.50 GHz | 2 MB | 400 MHz | 90 nm | 21 W |
| Pentium M 705 | 1.50 GHz | 1 MB | 400 MHz | 130 nm | 24.5 W |
| Celeron M 360 | 1.40 GHz | 1 MB | 400 MHz | 90 nm | 21 W |
| Celeron M 350 | 1.30 GHz | 1 MB | 400 MHz | 90 nm | 21 W |
| Celeron M 340 | 1.50 MHz | 512 kB | 400 MHz | 130 nm | 24.5 W |
| Celeron M 330 | 1.40 GHz | 512 kB | 400 MHz | 130 nm | 24.5 W |
| Celeron M 320 | 1.30 GHz | 512 kB | 400 MHz | 130 nm | 24.5 W |
| Celeron M 310 | 1.20 GHz | 512 kB | 400 MHz | 130 nm | 24.5 W |
The increasing thermal dissipation makes it obvious why FSB533 is the upper limit in the notebook sector.
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