Undoubtedly, Prescott is the next version x86, eighth generation processor from Intel, since we never heard of it until now.
Never heard of Prescott???
Heck, we even know the code name of Prescott's successor. (Tejas).
What if I told you I could dig up references to Prescott on this very thread from something like a year and a half ago? ;-)
Message 14000571
Thursday, Jul 6, 2000 9:22 AM
To:Mani Ahmadi who started this subject
From: Daniel Schuh
Return of the Son of Willamette
By: Andrew Thomas
Posted: 06/07/2000 at 11:54 GMT
Intel's 479 pin son of Willamette, due for launch next year, now has its very
own codename, Prescott. A die shrink from 0.18 to 0.13 micron, Prescott
and its associated Tulloch chipset are expected to support both synchronous
and Rambus memory. ®
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11789.html
Oops. At that point, Rambus will no longer be our friend. This is just the Register, of course, and the "son of Willy" rumors have been scoffed at by the official Intel FUD disseminators, but this bears watching.
Cheers, Dan.
There's also a ~ 6 month old claim by Anand that Presctott will feature an 800MHz FSB and Tejas 1.2GHz FSB. |
