RSSIntel Details Dual Core 'Pentium D'
By David Worthington | Published March 2, 2005, 8:03 PM
At the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday, Intel's Digital Home group manager Don MacDonald disclosed details of the company's upcoming dual-core desktop processor, dubbed Pentium D. Formerly known by its codename "Smithfield," the Pentium D will work with the Intel 945G Express or 945P Express chipsets that feature high definition audio.
Intel has designed the Pentium D for simultaneous use scenarios in the "digital home." For instance, a child could be playing a game while a parent is in the living room accessing stored audio or video with a remote control. PC designs based upon the new processor are expected to hit the market from major OEMs in the second quarter.
Anybody know if the code for a software application must be written to dual cores to exploit BOTH in the ~same~ proggie ?
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|Wonder what the battle between Athlon 64 dual core and Pentium D dual core with hyperthreading will be like?
I'm hopeful that dual core will benefit Athlon a lot because hyperthreading is pretty useful for the P4 in some mutli-tasking apps.
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|HT is very usefull for multi-tasking, but you must remember that the new Athlon 64 are quite better then P4 SE.
I'm a Intel fan, so hopefully the duel core will give Intel the lead which they desperetly need.
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|AMD's HT (HyperTransport) is a lot more useful than hyperthreading. It is one of the reason their Athlons have the same performance as Pentiums, running about 1GHz slower. HyperThreading just pretends to be two cores, while it is still held back by the processor's inability to do more than one thing at a time. It basically just makes it so that undeserving applications can't just take up 100% cpu.
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