This tells us that Prescott will not offer radical structual changes. It will be Northwoods did to the Canterwoods: raise the therotical maximum speed limit for the Pentium 4 family.
Prescott will be Intel's first 90mm CPUs. As a result, they are having great difficulties with power consumption because transistors and wires that small tends to 'leak.' Even though making CPUs smaller usually made the power consumption lower, the new multimedia extentions will offset any savings. It would be interesting to see the heatsinks for the Prescotts :-)
Posted by dreamnid at December 15, 2003 06:27 PM | TrackBack