Will E0 Prescotts be LGA775 exclusively?!

[Lancelot]

I'm building a heavy duty watercooling system, and am wondering if there are going to be Socket-478 E0-stepping Prescotts eventually. I don't expect i875P to support x86-64 though, that'll prolly take the extra pins of LGA775 and 915-925 chipsets most likely...

[tomslick]

Hi,
Not good news for prescotts if it is true.

Posted today on the Intel Intranet

Prescott at 4GHz is out, multi-core and more in store
Intel discloses changes in processor roadmap
Posted October 14, 2004; WW42
From Employee Communications
Reflecting Intel’s long-term platform strategy to offer new capabilities in volume, Intel disclosed Thursday that the company has changed its processor roadmap.

Intel is moving resources away from pure "GHz-oriented" projects to those projects that deliver high-volume platform solutions. Intel is today making the disclosures in discussions with customers, outlining its future direction on two platform-centric priorities: multi-core product lines and key platform silicon technologies.

These range from building upon the company’s cache memory strengths to user-centric capabilities and a host of technologies Intel is embedding into microprocessor and platform silicon known as “The T’s." With the T’s Intel is focusing on its strategy to deliver end-user benefits in addition to GHz to all Intel platforms in all segments—features to enhance security, multi-tasking, mobility, manageability, reliability, and more.

Intel has made specific decisions to best ensure the company can make and meet commitments on its product roadmaps while shifting resources toward platform-centric programs.

As a result of the changes, Intel will not bring the Prescott-based 4GHz processor to market. Instead, the company has added to its roadmap a comparable high-performance large-cache processor and other products delivering end-user benefits in addition to GHz.

Intel will focus its engineering resources to work on dual core designs, large-cache products, virtualization, and other platform features. For several years the company has said that increasingly, gigahertz speed alone will not deliver on the performance or computing requirements today’s computer users need.

I found this at http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=820127