RSSNew Pentium 4 Chips to Increase Cache
By Ed Oswald | Published February 21, 2005, 2:36 PM
Intel announced Sunday several additions to its line of Pentium 4 processors, all of which include 2MB of secondary cache, twice that of the current line of P4 processors. Also included with the new chips is the same technology included in its mobile processor line, which is designed to limit power consumption.
The processors will range in speed from 3 to 3.6 GHz with an 800Mhz bus. The top of the line model will sell for $605 USD in lots of 1,000, with the lowest model coming in at $224 USD.
The new Pentium 4 chips will be the last of the single-core processors from Intel as the company moves towards dual-core chips.
"We accelerated this effort with the introduction of Hyper-Threading Technology three years ago and we're extending it by building multi-core processors," Robert Crooke, Intel vice president said. "Platforms based on Intel multi-core technology will provide the performance and responsiveness consumers and businesses need to get the most enjoyment and productivity from their applications."
While dual core processors will not be clocked as fast as single-core chips initially, or be able to maintain the fast pace of speed increases the single-core processor market has seen, they will be faster overall. The processor's two "brains" will allow it to handle more load and offer improved performance.
The new processors are available now to computer makers and the first PCs with the new Pentium 4 chips should make it to the market over the next several months.
I've read in a couple of reviews that, while the cache is indeed larger, it's higher-latency, so peak performance for code and data that DO fit in the cache is reduced - quite significantly in some cases.
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|thanks for the warning
cheers :-)
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|The above says it all.
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|still not as powerful as 64 bit AMD's I bet! :P
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|Sure the AMD 64 might be faster, but who wants to run a bleeding edge platform with a beta OS? It's not like there's a lot of 64-bit software out or anything, although I understand .NET applications are BIT density adaptive. AMD has always had issues with driver stability, excessive heat, and a higher rate of DOA product shipments.
-Christian Blackburn
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|"Sure the AMD 64 might be faster, but who wants to run a bleeding edge platform with a beta OS?"
I certainly do not--I use Windows XP 32-bit with SP2, and it still kicks Intel's butt. Yeah, and at least AMD's Sempron processors are in the same leage as the XP processors, gosh those celerons suck...
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|I am buying AMD 64 bit bleeding edge technology within the next month. I don't have much to worry about though, since it will be my new Linux box.
I've been told that if the kernel is compiled for 64 bit processor, then all the apps compiled for that kernel will be at 64 bit too.
correct me if that's wrong.
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|Driver stability? yeah, I don't think so.
Heat? Have you even looked at the P4 lately? They run 2x as hot and suck down 2x as much power as the Athlon64.
Also, It does run 32bit x86 code nateivly (no emulation), so... basically everything you said is moot.
Try doing some research before you troll, please.
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