Mainstream dual Pentium processors?

[Rory7]

Hi, ive been hearing around school that in early 2005 Pentium are to realise a batch of dual processing cores, i.e two processors working together. Can anyone verify this? Also there will obviously have to be a whole reworking of motherboards, so perhaps its not such a good idea to splash out on a £130 mobo if its only gonna last you a year.

 

[lowman]

Haven't heard about a release of dual pentiums as one item...interesting though...I wonder how much of a difference it would be as opposed to simply running 2 processors you bought seperately...

 

[Nodsu]

2 cores are basically slower than 2 separate CPUs since they have to share some cache and memory bus (unless you have 2 memory channels like the Opteron) but of course it is cheaper and easier for mobo makers.

On the other hand it's a lot faster that HyperThreading since there are no shared CPU resources.

 

[Didou]

Intel is Heading Towards Dual-Core Desktop, Mobile, Server Processors

 

[bushwhacker]

what is Jonah? is that family trees of P4?

 

[Rory7]

I think Jonah is the codename for the dual processors they are going to be sticking in laptops