Intel's Pentium 4 to fade away

[hallen]

Posted on Thursday, March 03 2005 @ 18:35:46 CET by LSDsmurf

Intel said the Pentium 4 brand will slowly fade away - to make way for its new dual-core Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition (EE) processors.

The difference between the two is that the Pentium D's twin cores don't have Hyperthreading enabled, so a Pentium D will appear to the operating system as two processors. Pentium Extreme Edition, however, does have Hyperthreading and so will appear as four processors. The new Extreme Edition will appear in the second quarter of this year.

http://www.dvhardware.net/article4334.html

[Sentential]

<sigh> I hate buying a dying platform. Oh well. However I gotta admit for a P5 this seems like a pretty weak offering

[dicecca112]

we'll since the first offering is only running at 2.4 and that didn't make distinctions as to 1.2 per core or whatnot, Sentinel, your system may be dying, but how fast is up to debate.

[Cuper]

nice, maybe they will drop in price then ;)