December 19, 2003

Dissecting the Prescott

VR Zone takes apart an Intel Prescott. Interesting notes

  • 120 million transistors compared to 55 million with the P4
  • The die is 11 cm squared
  • 700 pins compared to 468

The number of transistors surprised me. No wonder they can increase the cache, add more SSE extentions, and possibly 64-bit extentions.

A word of warning - do not remove the IHS as it is soldered right on the die.

Posted by dreamnid at December 19, 2003 12:00 PM | TrackBack
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