“Intel will debut the Northwood Pentium 4 chip with 2.0GHz and 2.2GHz models next week. With double the cache and DDR memory, PCs equipped with the smaller and faster new chips promise to give AMD a new level to surpass.” Read the story at ZDNews.
Intel Revamps the Pentium 4
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According to the article:
AMD will come out with a 2000+ Athlon XP in January, and with their first “Thoroughbred,” a version of the Athlon XP chip made on the 0.13-micron process, in January. The chip will cover 80 square millimeters in area. Estimated Northwood chip sizes range from 116 to 145 sq. mm, vs. 214 for the current Pentium 4’s.
I hope AMD includes a cooler running, even if lower Ghz, model in their Thoroughbred lineup. The forthcoming Via models based on a 0.13-micron process supposedly will attain at least 1 Ghz frequencies without the need for a microprocessor fan. At this point I would trade relief from the din for power.
Another interesting article compares 64-entries from Intel, AMD, Alpha and Sun here: http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?section=columns&AID=RWT010202…
From article’s last page:
“It is comforting to see the pace of innovation in the microprocessor field shows no sign of slackening. The great seesaw battle between Intel and AMD for share of silicon’s richest prize, the x86 microprocessor market, is about to enter a new phase with the imminent release of the 0.13 um Northwood Pentium 4. Although AMD will also migrate its K7 core to 0.13 um later in 2002 with both bulk and SOI versions, it is unlikely to be in the position to regain the performance advantage over Intel it previously achieved with the T-bird and XP Athlon until its new 64-bit Hammer core ships. Unlike AMD, Intel plans to reserve its 64-bit offerings for the high-end market. With McKinley Intel hopes to address the significant performance difficulties seen in the Itanium in part by taking advantage of its capacious manufacturing facilities to incorporate a huge amount of on-chip cache on its sizable die.”