Intel set to go quad core early too

Well, you pull a Presler and put two Woodcrests on a slab of organic substrate. Now, you may say, "Gee, that would hammer the FSB speeds," and you are probably right - look for this one to be one bus bin down from its stablemates, but the chipmaker seems still to be a bit up in the air in that regard.

Anyhow, where would you get the engineers to do such a thing? Easy, kill the Itanic (IPF) projects wholesale. Look at the sudden disappearance of Kingsland, the scaling back of Montvale and others to figure out where the people came from.

Intel has it's priorities straight all of a sudden, and faster than you can say 'Bayshore', IPF ended up at the back of the bus, pun intended.

All the brains at Intel are no longer on IPF, it is x86 front and center.

Where does it fit in? Well, between Woodcrest in early 2007, and Whitefield in late 2007 or early 2008, if all goes well. Lets call it a mid-life kicker for the last of the FSB-bearing x86 chips. µ