At the Intel Developer Forum in February and at CeBIT were processors as regards the topic number one. Talk is of Intel’s new CPU name Pentium D and Pentium XE, which for the first time two this will have on a chip and therefore will revolutionize the world of the processor. But what keeps Intel itself of these?

One might think that Intel even in the highest notes of these talks and equally targeting a double-digit percentage than market share. But never, Intel stacks more deeply on these processors and is unusually restrained. So Intel’s is according to the core of Smithfield, on which both are Pentium based D and Pentium XE, play a major role on the world market this year and thus celebrate not the breakthrough can, as it did in the last year of the Prescott.

“” In terms of volume and magnitude, it’s not going to be as significant as last year,”said Tom Kilroy, his character President of Intel in the United States, in reference to the success of Prescott’s last year. You would rather try to meet the demand of the market and produce no large surpluses. “At the same time Tom Kilroy is assured with the phrase” the one thing we “re sure to do is build enough parts to meet market demand”, that you will try to pay any deficiencies.

Intel’s first dual-core CPUs are all based on the Smithfield-core and will have twice each a megabytes of level 2 cache and a front side bus of 800 MHz; the Prescott core serves as the basis. While the Pentium D, which will carry the rating number 800, no HyperThreading is active, it will be with the new extreme Edition of the case. Here are two physical and two additional logical CPU units available. The Pentium D puts it in the meantime only in two physical. Them size of Smithfield will be probably at 206 mm square, what is considered by analysts as too big for a mainstream processor. Intel’s Tiefstapelei with regard to the production and the market share of new Pentium CPUs is probably from this fact.

All new processors will be on the socket 775 runs, but need a new type i945 chipset or i955. Behind held hand, it is also speculated that also nVidias nForce 4 for Intel can deal with these. Be all of these processors of Intel’s 64-bit extension EM64T, enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology, short EIST and the XD bit have. Intel’s Vanderpool technology, which allows including operation of two operating systems at the same time is also in the conversation.