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Besides this I also found references to a release date of 2005
News Features from Intel Developer Forum
February 27, 2002
Intel Looks Ahead To Prescott--the Pentium 5?
Intel Corp. looked ahead to the Pentium 5 on Wednesday, disclosing more details about the PCs and laptops of 2003.
In a keynote here, Louis Burns, vice-president of Intel Corp., disclosed the "Prescott" processor, the next microarchitectural revision in the Pentium line. The Prescott processor will be released in the second half of 2003 at an undisclosed clock speed. Burns did not refer to the core as the Pentium 5, although all of Intel's major core revisions have been rewarded with a change in the brand name.
Prescott will feature "extensions to the NetBurst architecture" that drives the Pentium 4 including new instructions as well as hyperthreading, the technology currently running on Intel's server processors that allow software to divvy up the hardware processes of a microprocessor. Prescott will be manufactured on the 90-nanometer (0.09-micron) manufacturing process.
"Craig (Barrett, Intel's chief executive) has told you that we always innovate during a downturn, and we'll continue to do that," Burns said.
Burns said Intel is committed to bringing the concept of "anytime, anywhere" to home computing. Under Intel's vision, the home PC would serve as a hub, allowing mobile users to connect back to the PC and access data. In the home, the PC would serve essentially as a sort of server, distributing data to display and compute devices such as televisions and PDAs.
However, the bulk of Burns' speech was devoted to improving the performance and form factor of the home PC, especially reducing its form factor as well as the acoustic noise. To help the industry down this path, Intel announced "Tidewater" and "Big Water", standardized platforms that are designed for next-generation PCs.
Tidewater is an extension of the microATX platform, Burns said, and is due to ship in April of this year in a 9-liter package. Big Water is a bit more aggressive, Burns said, based on the modular 3GIO architecture, and is based upon the modular architecture that will allow add-on cards to be inserted like game cartridges in video game consoles.
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