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Re: Therefore, the introduction of 2.40GHz processor with Prescott core may be an indicator of 90nm massive ramp.

2.4ghz P4's were EOL'd some months ago. That they are rising from the dead is probably due to binsplit issues, not a sudden desire on Intel's part to get less money for its chips.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12040


No.... I don't think it's that at all.

I think intel is selling the original stepping of Prescott that didn't meet speed bins as these 2.4Ghz chips. That tells me, that the new stepping must now be in production, and even may be shipping, so there is no need to hold those chips back anymore.

I don't believe that 2.4GHz Prescott cores were EOL'd at all........ yet. Not until their all sold anyway. Your Inq link says ~ 6 months? Sounds about right. No sense throwing away functional chips, when you can Celeronize them by fusing a few cache cells, and sell them instead, eh?

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