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Actually, you didn't mention fusing until several posts after the misleading one.

The S775 chip mentioned here for Q4 launch will be Prescott based and have a model number of 720J. It will have both XD and probably EM64T.

That chip is not the one to which I referred!

(But, that one will have XD, but probably not EM64T, unless Intel changes their public position regarding EMT64 activation timing outside the server/workstation segment. And that chip may well have slipped into Q1-- An Intel spokesman said larger cache, faster FSB parts were coming NEXT YEAR, on Friday. Now, that doesn't explicitly rule out their arrival this year, but I expect the old 130nm EE stuff on 775 is more likely for this year than a new 90nm Prescott.)

I'll say it again:

They are also preparing to launch 130nm Northwoods (not EEs) on LGA-775, presumably due to the disaster that is 90nm Prescott.

Here's a link: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040731144157.html

"In a rather surprising manner Intel also seems to move a number of 130nm chips into its new Socket T infrastructure: the firm plans to release Pentium 4 2.80C, Pentium 4 3.00C and Pentium 4 3.20C processors with 800MHz processor system bus and 512KB of L2 cache. For higher-end market segment the company will offer Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processors at 3.20GHz and 3.46GHz with 1066MHz Quad Pumped Bus and 2MB of L2 cache along with “officially planned” Pentium 4 3.80GHz with 800MHz bus and 1MB of cache."

My opinion is that Intel is stalling EMT64 outside of the server/workstation market because:

(1) The current implementation in the Prescott core has crappy performance.

(2) The more parts in the wild supporting iAMD64, the faster the potential for IPF market expansion is crushed.

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