570J: Last of Pentium 4 Mohicans released

THE LAST in the range of Intel's Pentium 4 Prescott architecture as we know it is being shown off in Japan, spotted by the Hawkeyes at Akiba PC Pricewatch.

Intel confirms the 570J microprocessor has been released today.

The 570J, which is a Pentium 4 at 3.80GHz frequency with 1MB of cache, an 800MHz front side bus and the NX flag enabled will be the last of its kind.

It includes C1E - enhanced halt state, which lowers frequency and voltage to diminish power consumption and noise, and TM2 - thermal monitoring two.

In January next year Intel will introduce its 6XX series, a set of Pentium 4 branded processors which will come with 2MB of level two cache.

The plans it had to release a 4GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor are dust, as we all know now.

But, look on the bright side. As Tech Report says in an article on the 570J today, the 3.8GHz Pentium 4 can be overcocked to 4GHz without too much trouble at all. It also comes with lower power consumption, Scott Wasson reckons.

And it will allow Intel to compete with the AMD 3800+ and 4000+.

We think AMD could have gone a bit further with its own high end chips, but if Intel doesn't, why should it? The two companies have always walked hand in hand. Heck Robert Noyce even lent Jerry Sanders III the cash to start up AMD, a historic irony indeed.

The Japanese page is here. µ