Intel President Paul Otellini announced three second-generation dual-core processors on Thursday and said first-generation prototypes are faring well.

In February, Intel said it was working on 15 dual-core chip designs, which combine two processing engines on a single slice of silicon, and on Thursday Otellini disclosed three new names.

Code names for those second-generation dual-core chips are Conroe, for desktop machines; Merom, for laptops; and Woodcrest, for lower-end servers with two processor sockets, Otellini said. They will succeed Presler, Yonah and Dempsey, respectively.

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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by soypowered on 06 May 2005 - 02:44
I'm just wondering why intel doesn't market one of their processors as the Pentium 5, what are they waiting for??? Maybe these next dual core ones will be it, who knows.
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by sphbecker on 06 May 2005 - 03:58
There will actually never be a Pentium 5. You may have noticed that the desktop processor is no longer called a Pentium 4, it took after the mobile processor and is not called a Pentium D.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by hardgiant on 06 May 2005 - 03:09
I'm waiting for 1207.

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(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Aaronz0rz on 06 May 2005 - 04:23
hmm i wonder what socket this will be
*rolls eyes*
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by divertom15 on 06 May 2005 - 06:10
yeah thats what i love about amd with amd you rarely have to upgrade the motherboard because the memory controller is not on the board but on the processor itself. when will intel learn
Quote this comment #3.2 Posted by sphbecker on 06 May 2005 - 13:35
Well, Intel normally beats AMD on memory related benchmarks, so their approach seems to have some merit as well.
Quote this comment #3.3 Posted by TwoTailedFox on 06 May 2005 - 14:42
On DDR2 Intel chipsets compared to DDR1 AMD chipsets, only.

DDR1 vs. DDR1, AMD typically beats Intel.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by tiwaris on 06 May 2005 - 08:46
The names are funny.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Tech001101 on 06 May 2005 - 13:54
when will we see these on the market ?
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by sphbecker on 06 May 2005 - 17:27
It is in the article. It said that the newer desktop and laptop dual-core would not be around until late 2006 and the dual-processor dual-core would be after 2006. That seems like a very long time off. I could hope Intel plans other forms of performance improvements between now and them. Perhaps they will try to push the frequency of dual-cores back up to 4GHz.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by sLm4ever on 06 May 2005 - 22:16
I have a stupid question here ...
is it 32bit & 32bit ... ?
or 64 & 64 ?

I think it's 32s ,,, but when will we see dual 64bit = ??
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