Intel's Pentium 4 Prescott processor
Plus Northwood's last ride
INTEL IS LAUNCHING A BEVY of new chips today, including new speed grades of the current Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processors clocked at 3.4GHz. The biggest news, though, is the new processor core, code-named Prescott. Prescott isn't just a die shrink, though it is that. Prescott is also a major reworking of the Pentium 4's microarchitecture—major enough that I'm surprised Intel didn't opt to call this processor the Pentium 5. Read on to find out what it's all about.
Plus Northwood's last ride
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