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Intel has redrawn its product plans for 2005, shelving two chips and announcing vague plans about the processors that will come out next year.

The chipmaker confirmed that it will shelve Tejas, a version of the Pentium 4 due out later this year, and Jayhawk, a similar Xeon chip for servers that had been slated for 2005.

In their place, Intel will come out with dual-core chips for desktops in 2005 and for notebooks in 2005 or 2006, an Intel representative said. Earlier, Intel had indicated that dual-core chips for these markets might not appear until 2006 or later.

Dual-core chips can provide far better performance than traditional single-core chips. Intel's plans, however, appear to be quite vague at the moment. The representative could not identify code names for the new products. It is also unclear whether the chips will be made using the 90-nanometer manufacturing process or the newer 65-nanometer process.

Typically, when announcing new chips, Intel provides the new code names and sometimes describes the manufacturing process.

The chips also have not "taped out," the representative said, which means that the design is not yet finalised. Tape-out usually occurs a year before shipment.

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Source: ZDnet