Intel Corporation is going to take the same approach of expanding Prescott market share as it used with its Hyper-Threading enabled chips. The company reportedly is going to offer some more or less mainstream Prescott processors with a bit lower core-clock and, hopefully, power consumption in the first quarter next year. Additionally, the company will also launch Celeron processors and appropriate chipsets to popularize its Socket T (LGA775) and PCI Express platform.
As we already know, the Prescott processors will start this November at 3.40 and 3.20GHz core-clocks. Earlier it was expected that Intel launches just another Prescott chip at 3.60GHz in Q1 2004 and this will be the last and final Socket 478 processor. However, PC Watch Japanese web-site reports that Intel had also decided to release Prescott CPUs at 2.80 and 3.0GHz speeds in the first quarter next year. Such processors should have a bit lowered power consumption and may even work with FMB 1.0 mainboards based on i865PE/G or i875P chipsets, though, this is only an assumption.
Source:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...813031820.html
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