We had a chat with an Intel executive last week and we asked about Prescott and whether the reports that the forthcoming microprocessor dissipates 100 watts in its current revision.
He said that Prescott does have high dissipation and that 100 watts was close to that number, while Intel is already working on a new core revision that could cut this dissipation.
We also saw a slide confirming 11 new instructions, an 800 MHz FSB mPGA478 package, 1MB of L2 cache, hyper threading enhancements, and that it used Netburst marchitecture. We also saw a picture of what appears to be the Prescott core.
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