C|Net heeft een interessant artikel gepost met daarin informatie over Intel's Northwood en Tualatin processor. De Northwood staat gepland voor het derde kwartaal van 2001 en wordt een verbeterde versie van de Pentium 4 'Willamette'. Volgens geruchten gaat tijdens de introductie op minimaal 2GHz draaien en zal hij zowel RDRAM, SDRAM en DDR SDRAM ondersteunen.
The Pentium 4 is coming soon, but that is only the first of a number of products coming from Intel in the next 16 months.
The company is preparing to launch its Pentium 4 early in the fourth quarter and will then follow the release with a number of processors for different product segments, according to sources. The chip will run at 1.4 GHz, Intel has said.
Toward the end of the third quarter in 2001, the company will come out with Northwood, an improved version of the Pentium 4, according to Bert McComas, an analyst at InQuest Market Research. McComas examined Intel's most recent product roadmaps and posted an article on the roadmap on his company's web site. [break]Meer informatie is er bekend over de Intel Tualatin wat de codenaam is voor de 0.13 micron Pentium III waar je eerder al over kon lezen. Tualatin zal in totaal 512kB integrated cache bevatten in plaats van de 256kB bij de huidige P3's. De bussnelheid wordt zoals bekend opgekrikt naar 200MHz.[/break] Before that, in the middle of 2001, Intel will come out with Tualatin, a version of the Pentium III made on the 0.13-micron process, more advanced than the current 0.18-micron process, McComas said. The micron measurements refer to the size of certain features on the chip. By shrinking the features, a manufacturer can make the chip smaller as well as boost its performance.
Along with being faster, Tualatin will also contain a larger secondary cache, a bank of memory close to the processor that boosts performance, according to one source. Tualatin Pentium IIIs will contain 512KB of integrated cache, compared to 256KB of integrated cache on current Pentium IIIs.
Tualatin will also come with a 200-MHz system bus. The system bus serves as a data conduit between the processor and the rest of the computer. The current Pentium III system bus tops out at 133 MHz.