Intel’s code-named Smithfield dual-core desktop processors will be clocked at around 3.00GHz clock-speed and will support 64-bit capability, claims report at AnandTech web-site, however, the chips will not sport Hyper-Threading technology along with high-speed processor system bus.
Future dual-core microprocessors for desktops from Intel Corp. that are projected to emerge in the third quarter, 2005, will run at 2.80GHz, 3.00GHz and 3.20GHz, integrate 2MB of unified cache, utilize 800MHz processor system bus and feature LGA775 form-factor. The dual-core desktop processor internally called Smithfield will be made using 90nm process technology, each processing engine will use the same architecture with the current Pentium 4 “Prescott” chip, however, the new central processing unit will feature “arbitration logic that will balance bus transactions between the two CPUs”.
News source: X-bit labs
Future dual-core microprocessors for desktops from Intel Corp. that are projected to emerge in the third quarter, 2005, will run at 2.80GHz, 3.00GHz and 3.20GHz, integrate 2MB of unified cache, utilize 800MHz processor system bus and feature LGA775 form-factor. The dual-core desktop processor internally called Smithfield will be made using 90nm process technology, each processing engine will use the same architecture with the current Pentium 4 “Prescott” chip, however, the new central processing unit will feature “arbitration logic that will balance bus transactions between the two CPUs”.
News source: X-bit labs
Thanks to Morgan and Carlo for the heads-up on this one!
By the way...
I'm currently encoding a 1h:40m video from QuickTime to MPEG2 for DVD as I type this and it's as if the encoding process wasn't even going on.
You will feel same with non-HT processors if you know how to manage tasks. Give the encoder lowest priority, and you can surf web without feeling that something is being encoded.
Anyone who says that HT was covering up a design flaw is smoking something. An HT processor's only flaw is that it is now as powerful a true dual processors. But, if you don't like HT, just turn it off in the BIOS and your processor will still perform better then older units that didn't support HT.
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