Two Cores Sharing A Home: The Dual Core 800 Series
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| 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.
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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