Intel scraps 4GHz Prescott
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 15, 2004 at 5:33:13 AM
Intel has axed the 4GHz Pentium 4 in favor of dual core CPUs. Also on the platter are 64-bit CPUs and more cache! Not to be mistaken for cash, which the Intel chips require a great deal of.
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Instead, Intel will boost performance on its chips by increasing the size of the cache, a pool of memory located on the processor for rapid data access. Current mainstream Pentium 4s now have 1MB cache. In the future, these chips will have 2MB of cache, like Intel's Xeon server chips and the "Extreme Edition" Pentium 4s designed for gaming PCs.