New information about 65 nm chip for Intel's desktop

Asustek has just revealed some information in Intel's plan to build high-end desktop processing equipment. A new Taiwanese motherboard is being designed to support this upcoming chip and chipset.

Asustek's P5WDG2-WS board will support Pentium Extreme Edition 955, the processor has never appeared in Intel's price list. Pentium Extreme Edition is aimed at gamers and PC users who want to achieve the highest level of performance that a processing device can perform. The chip is equipped with 2 Mb L2 cache on each core, supporting multithreading as well as virtualization technology and 1066 MHz routing bus.

Pentium Extreme Edition 955 seems to be a copy of the Presler chip Intel announced earlier this year at the Intel developer forum. A spokesman for the maker said it was preparing to market the new 975 chipset but declined to comment on Extreme Edition 955.

Presler is the first desktop processing device built on Intel's 65 nanometer technology. Technically, this is considered a dual-core chip, but it is actually a multi-chip module (two separate devices are included in a single product package). It is cheaper and easier to operate than building 2 microprocessors in a single chip.

Presler and the single-core version of Cedar Mill seem to be the product line that signals the end of the Netburst structure, the platform for Pentium IV from 2000 and more recently Pentium D. Netburst is designed to increase copper clock stability. lake. But high speed has led to large power consumption and Intel faces many problems with heat generation. By mid-2006, the world's number one chip maker will introduce three multi-core chips based on the "new generation microarchitecture" platform. This structure is based on the design principle of reduced power consumption, similar to Pentium M's method for laptops.

Intel intends to release Presler in the first quarter of 2006 for about 999 USD, but the time of providing Asustek's motherboard to computer manufacturers has not been announced.