Any expectations that Intel Corp.'s next-generation Prescott processor will make an appearance in 2003 are fading fast as the year winds to a close. The chip had been expected to make its debut in the fourth quarter, but only a select number of PC manufacturers will get their hands on Intel's first 90-nanometer processor before 2004.
Prescott is an update to the current Pentium 4 processor. It will come with double the cache of current Pentium 4 chips with up to 1M byte of Level 2 cache, and will also contain 13 new instructions that improve the performance of video encoding and floating-point applications, among other things.
In the first half of the year, at the Spring Intel Developer Forum and the company's spring analyst meeting, Intel executives indicated that Prescott would ship this year. But as the second half of the year rolled around, Intel changed its guidance to say that it would ship the chip "for revenue" in the fourth quarter.
infoworld
Dec 12, 2003, 07:44 PM
