Intel Prescott chip analysed

But there's still quite a few things we can only guess it, including what the extra pins of the T-Socket will do for the 90 nanometer processor.

Hans de Vries at chip-architect.com has taken a look at what we know already, and what was discovered later, including information about the cache, the infamous 13 PNIs, La Grande - whatever that is - and hints Intel has dropped about improved hyperthreading, better pre-fetching, and improved power management and integer multiply latency.

In an article on his site he looks at the sheets with some die information and puts together a speculative diagram of the die as well.

He wonders about the die size too, and you can read all of his thoughts over here. µ

See Also
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Intel restores Prescott "secret pages"
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Prescott 3.20GHz appears in Intel roadmaps
Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 coverage