Intel Presler CPU slated for Q1 next year

ROADMAPS SEEN by the INQUIRER show that Intel is steadily adding different components to its desktop microprocessors, in a bid to combat AMD and wrench back its performance crown.

Presler is a 65 nanometre dual core processor, as is its sister chip Yonah on the mobile front, and reliable sources tell the INQ that Intel already has early samples of these chips up and running in the fabs.

The firm will add EM64T 64-bit support to its existing 5XX Pentium 4s in the second quarter, and to its 3XX Celeron D processor range in the same period.

And it will introduce its "Presler" processor in the first quarter of next year, when Cedar Mill - a codename that's been used in the past, will also see the light of day.

Smithfield dual core chips appear to be slated for the second quarter, and will form the 8XX series of Intel processors, aimed at both the gaming market and the mainstream market too.

Intel will also add Vanderpool (VT) tech to the 6XX series of chips in the second half of this year, it has emerged.

For single core processors, the 670 will last right through until this time next year, and that's true for the 660 and other 2MB L2 cache chips as well.

The first dual core Smithfields will be dubbed the 840, the 830 and the 820, look they're going to be released at the end of Q2, and will be displaced by the Presler processor in Q1 next year. These Presler chips are 65 nanometre processors. Preslers are likely to clock at 3.6GHz and above.

Some "legacy" Pentium 4s will remain on sale throughout the first two quarters - these are the 3.40GHz, the 3.20GHz, the 2.80GHz, and the 3GHz 478 pin Pentium 4s. The last "legacy" Celerons will be the 2.80GHz, the 2.70GHz, the 2.60GHz and the 2.50GHz processor. µ

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