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To: Elmer who wrote (167158)	6/26/2002 9:24:59 PM
From: Monica Detwiler	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Prescott is Out Intel's next-generation Pentium 4 has reached silicon and includes x86-64 support. Based on 90-nm technology, our sources have confirmed that the Santa Clara-based chipmaker has working Prescott silicon, and despite recent denials by Intel’s COO Paul Otellini, the design includes AMD Hammer-like 64-bit instruction set extensions known by the codename “Yamhill.” The chip should be able to scale to over 4 GHz and is strategically crucial for the CPU giant to counter rival AMD’s highly anticipated “Hammer” line of 64-bit processors. Hammer should debut late this year. In related news, while Prescott will be aimed at the high-end desktop and server markets, Intel continues to work quietly on another pure 32-bit product codenamed “Tejas.” This consumer desktop chip is a collaboration between Texas and Folsom-based Intel design teams and includes enhancements for media decoding. Perhaps the biggest news about Tejas is that it will feature a true data-cache and a larger instruction cache reportedly 32 kB in size. The cache improvements should serve to provide a slight boost to IPC (instructions per clock-cycle). Finally, the Hammer’s memory controller issue we reported yesterday has been characterized as a “to be expected” early bug that will be relatively trivial to correct prior to the December launch. [Ed: We published this story first on our message boards earlier today.] vanshardware.com