Need Confirmation on the P3 cD0's

[[OC]_SR20DE]

ok, maybe I have misheard this the fact about the P3 cD0 stepping chips and I'm asking to those who know about this chip. The question is: what micron size is the chip die on the core? Thanks..

[Placid]

.18 micron.

You can check for yourself if you want here:

http://support.intel.com/support/processors/sspec/p3p.htm

cD0's are note 3.

[[OC]_SR20DE]

ok thanks Placid. That cleared it.

[DocClock aka MadClocker]

Did you notice no "DO's" below 866mhz?

I was just thinking that it's amazing that this "P6" core could live through so many steppings and revisions,and not really being surpassed by the "P7?" core except in mem bandwidth

[batboy]

If Intel continues with their past history of labeling steppings, then the first P-III Tualatin 0.13 micron chip will be tA0 stepping. The current C-II and P-III chips are Coppermines (0.18 micron), so they are cA0, cB0, cC0, and, cD0 steppings.

A little confusing, I know. I don't know why Intel is trying to release the Tualatin P-III if it has to use a different chipset (motherboard) than the other P-III chips like they claim. One article I read was that it was originally designed to mainly be a laptop solution chip until the P-4 was completely mainstream.

I'll probably move directly from my current P-III setup to the new "Brookie" P-4 that is due out at the end of the year. Can you say 2 gig? That will bypass the "Willie" P-4 and the Tualatin P-III which, in my opinion, are just merely marketing stop-gaps in Intel's battle with AMD.

[[OC]_SR20DE]

Thanks for the input Doc and Batboy. That is interesting Batboy. ahh... I knew it.. I heard some thing about .13u technology on a P3 core and i had little confusion with the cD0 stepping. Hmm.. Tualatin is the one.. yes that would seem a lot of hassle if the future P3 of the Tualatin .13u requires different chipset because of such change. Sorry I haven't done much of reading on the Intel's update but is the code name "Northwood" the same as "Brookie" one?

[batboy]

Ok, you got me on that one. There is a chip design called the Brookdale, but the Northwood will be the next P-4 chip and is what I meant to say. I got the two confused.

To confuse things even worse, at one time Intel talked about a .18 micron P-III chip called the coppermine-T, but I haven't heard anything about it for months. Maybe they abandoned it.

[[OC]_SR20DE]

Ok Batboy, thanks.. yeah I was confused with all these fancy names hehehe... I've got it now

[Wunder]

Its a shame that Intel Insiders (geddit? hahaha... :-P ) never post anything on the forums, if they did we wouldnt have to use astrology and such to find out about the future of our most beloved OC-chip. But if they did maybe they'd get fired for sharing stuff with us; the people who dont wanna pay for GHz...