Intel is Already Sampling Prescott Processors! 3.80GHz CPUs by Year End?
We managed to dig that Intel is already sampling its Prescott processor these days. The chips are not yet final, but in the second quarter Intel will already start to send its new 90nm CPUs to the partners. Since the chips that are sent to design partners should be made on more or less mature fabrication process, the information fully corresponds to the fact that the 90nm manufacturing technology is to be finalised by the middle of the year (see this news-story).
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1044497587
We managed to dig that Intel is already sampling its Prescott processor these days. The chips are not yet final, but in the second quarter Intel will already start to send its new 90nm CPUs to the partners. Since the chips that are sent to design partners should be made on more or less mature fabrication process, the information fully corresponds to the fact that the 90nm manufacturing technology is to be finalised by the middle of the year (see this news-story).
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1044497587