Intel to launch 2MB 1066 chip in Q4

THE GUYS IN THE ROAD map division at Intel have been working overtime because someone took the decision to ditch Tejas, as we reported exclusively last week.

As well as the 1066FSB that we've written about earlier today, here are other significant changes to Intel's future plans, including the launch of a Prescott 2MB 1066 "Battle of Hastings" CPU in Q4 which will be numbered 720.

There's also the introduction of the Lakeport family to the CS roadmap, and a change to Intel's "corporate stable platform".

Lakeport is a chipset*.

According to the latest week 19 roadmap which we glimpsed over someone's shoulder at the Porcupine yesterday, Intel is also pushing on with its Gallatin based Extremely Expensive Edition - there's a launch in Q3 using LGA 775 and with a frequency of 3.46GHz.

Intel's LGA775 will now officially launch on the 21st of June, and the 3.40GHz Extremely Expensive edition will appear in LGA775 guise then.

The Intel Celeron D line, based on the Prescott technology and numbered 335, 330 and 325 will be introduced three days later, using a 533MHz front side bus and with only a miserable 256K of L2 cache. Intel has helpfully provided a crib sheet to its customers so they don't get confused by 720s, 580s and the rest, and can work out what the megahurts ® are. Intel's 925X will just squeeze into the second quarter, while its 925XE chipset will fly out in the third quarter.

And in Q2 of 2005, the Lakeport family will make an appearance. This is probably the Pentium M based successor to the Netbust family of microprocessors for the desktop.

Intel will make price cuts on its desktop processors and on its Celerons on the 20th of June. We'll have more details of these in a jiffy or two. µ

* CORRECTION The original article referred to Lakeport as a processor. It is, of course, a chipset.