Jai van Insane Hardware dropte een mailtje in m'n mailbox dat ze een paar foto's online hebben staan van Intel's Tualatin Pentium III. De Tualatin is een opgevoerde Coppermine CPU gebouwd met een 0.13 micron productieproces en in het bezit van meer L2 cache, 512KB volgens Insane Hardware. Verder zal de processor een 200MHz FSB krijgen om zo te kunnen profiteren van een hogere bandbreedte in combinatie met DDR geheugen. Ook heel handig is dat er standaard een gat in de CPU zit om hem snel en simpel om te kunnen bouwen tot sleutelhanger :
Tualatin is Intel's new Socket 370 FC-PGA2 processor aimed at the mainstream market during the end of Q2 and the beginning of Q3 2001. The new and most welcome addition to the new processor is the which stands for Integrated Heat Spreader. Just like the Pentium 4, the IHS protects the CPU core from damage that may occur during installation or removal of a heatsink. The IHS also has a small hole in the left hand bottom corner just like the P4, however the local Intel Rep could not tell me what the purpose of this hole is. The main advantage of the IHS is that it allows for a greater contact area between the CPU and the heatsink, essentially allowing greater themal conductivity. The IHS also makes this CPU incompatible with most heatsinks on the market currently because the IHS is 1.5mm in height. This means that companies like Global Win and Alpha may have to redesign their clips because current ones may execute too much load onto the core and may fracture the core or the packaging. This is only a minor area that must be fixed but the chunks of copper and aluminium floating around for FCPGA processors will still work. Like the current FC-PGA processors, we expect to see the same sort or resistor configuration as we see on the current Pentium III processors.
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