Neowin News Feed for: Prescott

Intel confirms NX Bit Prescott stepping

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:52:44 +0000

CHIP FIRM Intel told its customers a little while ago that it would introduce a stepping for its Prescott chip, E0, in Q3. And according to sources at those customers, it's confirmedit will ship that... Read more...

Numerous bugs reported in Intel Prescott Pentium 4

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:21:12 +0000

A DAY AFTER Intel released five LGA 775 chips, the firm reported a list of bugs in its Pentium 4 Prescott produced at 90 nanometres. The report, dated 22nd of June 2004, show some interesting... Read more...

Intel Will Not Enable 64-Bits in Existing Prescott Cores

Fri, 21 May 2004 14:21:53 +0000

Intel's senior management made their yearly trek to midtown Manhattan on May 13th to brief a large group of financial and technology analysts on the state of its current business, and convey product strategies for... Read more...

Intel release 800MHz FSB Prescott June 21 and 1066MHz FSB Q4

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 14 May 2004 08:14:03 +0000

Intel plans to introduce a new Pentium 4 chip running a 1066MHz front side bus (FSB) in the fourth quarter, according to sources at Taiwanese motherboard makers. The new processor will be an upgraded version... Read more...

Intel to 'ditch' Pentium 4 core after Prescott

Fri, 07 May 2004 12:58:30 +0000

The Pentium M's are an amazing class of processors for mobile and some desktop machines- if Intel can (and i'm sure they will) sucessfully port the tech over to the mainstream desktop / server chip... Read more...

Intel prices up Prescott desktop processors

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 11:34:48 +0000

CHIP GIANT Intel has told its partners the kind of prices they can expect to pay as the LGA 775 Prescotts roll out, complete with bright and shiny Numbers. According to recent roadmaps seen by... Read more...

UK News: 2.8GHz Prescott finally available

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:31:53 +0000

RETAILERS IN THE UK, Austria and Bosnia have received stocks of Prescott 2.8 CPUs we learn, and we ghuess the chip is heading for other European territories too. But it seems that this is the... Read more...

Intel 90nm 3GHz Prescott postponed until April

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:58:43 +0000

Intel has delayed general availability of its 90nm 3GHz Prescott processors to April from the original schedule of mid-March due to production capacity constraints at its wafer foundry, according to sources at Taiwanese distributors. The... Read more...

Prescott no match for Northwood?

Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:36:19 +0000

Thanks to leebobs for this interesting spot of news. "...the debut of a processor based on a cutting-edge process technology and architecture that only offers the same performance level as the predecessor... Read more...

Prescott makes play for living room

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:22:11 +0000

Intel will release a new desktop chip next month, kicking off what is likely to be an intense effort to get computers into the living room. Prescott, the code name for an enhanced version of... Read more...

Intel's Prescott reveals its process problems

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:30:53 +0000

IF THE information published by two Asian websites in the last week is correct, it indicates that Intel might have to go quite a lot further to maintain its performance claims not now, but in... Read more...

Intel's Prescott chip gets rebuilt for speed

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:10:11 +0000

Intel has redesigned a key element in an upcoming version of the Pentium 4 processor to allow the chip to hit higher speeds, but analysts say the change may only incrementally improve performance at first.... Read more...

Prescott will be no faster than Pentium 4

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:33:48 +0000

ACE'S HARDWARE has filed another report about Intel's forthcoming Prescott chips and suggests that the main reason for the introduction is to give the chip company a chance to update the clock frequencies in the... Read more...

Fully fledged Intel Prescott could soak 150 watts

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:52:05 +0000

THIS YEAR is the year when Intel really goes for it on relatively untried technologies. First of all, it will blaze the trail on DDR-2, after pouring hundreds of millions into Micron and Elpida. These... Read more...

Pipeline changes could slow Intel's Prescott down

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 11:31:49 +0000

THERE ARE RUMOURS on a number of websites that Intel has re-engineered its architecture to include additional pipelines but if this turns out to be true it may well slow the chip down, not speed... Read more...

Prescott and Upgrading

Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:30:28 +0000

There has been a lot of speculation in recent months about whether or not the upcoming Intel Prescott CPUs will work with current Intel 848/865/875 chipset based boards. After compiling information from a variety of... Read more...

Intel's Prescott still in trouble, it appears

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:04:11 +0000

WHILE INTEL'S 90 nano technology is fine and dandy, the next generation Prescott engine is still not ticking over as well as it might, according to my emoles inside the chip giant. The emoles tell... Read more...

2 February 2004 is Prescott Day

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:34:17 +0000

Intel's 90nm 'Prescott' Pentium 4 processor will launch on Monday, 2 February, according to Xbit Labs which cites sources said to be close to the company. On the big day, the chip giant will roll... Read more...

Prescott notebooks will scale to 4GHz

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:08:35 +0000

SOURCES DISCLOSED that when Intel succeeds in creating Prescott processors aimed at the notebook market, they are likely to scale to 4GHz before that particular avenue reaches a dead end. The Intel plans for notebook... Read more...

Intel Prescott Already Has 64-bit Extensions

Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:45:54 +0000

We managed to find out some more information about Intel Prescott processor than the Santa Clara, California-based company wants everybody to know. According to a source whishing to remain anonymous, Intel's next-generation NetBurst CPU code-named... Read more...

Prescott set for 90-100W power draw - Intel

Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:16:28 +0000

'Prescott' will never exceed 100W of power dissipation, Intel said today, in a bid to keep the heated debate over the as-yet-unlaunched Pentium processor's thermal characteristics from bubbling over. "The Prescott thermal envelope will be... Read more...

Intel Prescott to be born on the 3rd of December

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:34:48 +0000

WE LEARNED about the Intel Prescott launch date just before IDF started but we didn't want to create panic in already hectic days for Intel employees. Aren't we sweet? Prescott is a 2004 chip in... Read more...

Intel Talks About Prescott, Tejas Cooling

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 05:02:52 +0000

Intel's NetBurst microprocessor have always been consuming a lot of power and dissipating a lot of heat. Every new speed-grade of such CPUs requires some changes to their cooling systems making them larger and louder.... Read more...

Prescott has 64-bit compatibility built in

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 05:01:35 +0000

Since we published the pins and needling story yesterday, the black shirted moles have come out of the woodwork about the innards of Prescott. Those little critters can't stop talking. The power people told us... Read more...

Intel samples Prescott, Dothan

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:32:53 +0000

Intel has begun sampling Prescott desktop and Dothan mobile next-generation processors build on its 90nm process. And both chips will achieve "revenue shipments" during Q4, the company says. So reports EBN, citing an unnamed Intel... Read more...

Intel confirms Prescott does dissipate 100W

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 13:39:49 +0000

WE HAD A CHAT with an Intel executive last week and we asked about Prescott and whether the reports that the forthcoming microprocessor dissipates 100 watts in its current revision. He said that Prescott does... Read more...

Prescott to Dissipate 100W+ of Heat

Sat, 26 Jul 2003 06:29:41 +0000

A Japanese web-site revealed some information about heat-dissipation of Intel Prescott processors due to come this November at $637 price-point. The chip will be extremely hot and hungry and in general this is a reason... Read more...

Prescott Support on i875P/i865PE Motherboards a Total Mess

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:26:01 +0000

Thanks xStaindx...There is a total mess with Prescott support by existing mainboards based on i865PE and i875P chipsets that are meant to be "Ensured '03 Platforms Are Prescott Ready". Intel does not want to comment... Read more...

Prescott Celerons to Be Compatible with Current Mainboards?

Tom Warren — Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:51:06 +0000

Thanks xStainDx ....The Inquirer released some new information regarding Intel Celeron processors based on Prescott 90nm core due to be out in the first half of the next year. Probably you already know the basic... Read more...

Mainboards with Prescott Support to Come in August

Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:39:18 +0000

It is now confirmed that Intel is playing the same bad socket joke it is known for again and current platforms from a lot of mainboard makers will not be compatible with Intel Prescott processor... Read more...

Intel Prescott 3.40GHz Pricing Unveiled

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 18:52:48 +0000

The initial pricing of Intel code-named Prescott processor was revealed by an unofficial source here today. The fastest Socket 478 chip from Intel with 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus and 1MB of L2 cache in addition... Read more...

Intel plans October P4 price cuts ahead of Prescott launch

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:04:50 +0000

PC buyers awaiting cheaper 3.2GHz Pentium 4 machines rather than splashing out after the chip's launch on 23 June will have to hold off until late October. Intel is not planning to cut the cost... Read more...

Prescott to Start at 3.40GHz In Q4 2003

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:59:43 +0000

Thanks xStainDx...While we originally told you that Intel would be able to bring 3.80GHz Prescott processors into the market shortly after the Prescott launch, it now seems that the company reconsidered its strategy and will... Read more...

AOL is updating their AOL 9 Beta browser with Prescott Skins

Wed, 21 May 2003 10:51:06 +0000

AOL previously launched a Blue Hawaii Beta Program for Beta Testers to preview what they will be adding to their future Windows AOL Client Software - AOL 9.0, now the development of AOL 9.0 comes... Read more...

Intel Sampling Prescott Processors: 3.80GHz CPUs by Year End

Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:33:40 +0000

I managed to dig up some information that Intel is already sampling its Prescott processor. The chips are not final yet, but in the second quarter Intel will start to send its new 90nm CPUs... Read more...

Intel Prescott will have Hyperthreading 2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 21:21:14 +0000

INTEL'S NEXT PROCESSOR, codenamed Prescott, will come with Hyperthreading 2 according to Juergen Thiel, the company's European Union Managing Director. He also attempted to squash recurring rumours of Intel taking on AMD's x86-64 technology. No... Read more...

Intel Prescott Chipsets get numbers and more info

Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:10:23 +0000

Intel is moving so far ahead on the 800MHz dual 400 DDR chipsets it will introduce next year they've already got numbers rather than codenames. These chipsets will support the Prescott 90 nanometer microprocessor "seamlessly"... Read more...

Pentium 4 chips to get 800MHz system buses, while Prescott delayed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:55:06 +0000

WE'VE KNOWN FOR some time that the Springdale-G and Springdale-P chipsets might support 667MHz but now Intel has upped the ante by saying it will support Northwood Pentium 4s with an 800MHz front side bus.That... Read more...

Intel releases Prescott, Springdale materials

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:29:32 +0000

OEMS HAVE RECEIVED detailed specifications of the Prescott microprocessor which Intel will release next year, along with details of Springdale, the chipset which comes in two brands and which will support the product. ... Read more...