Where are the Northwoods?

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This is crap, just crap.. I can't believe how hard its getting to get
a Intel Pentium Northood Processor anymore. : (
 
where are the 3.2s and the 3.4s Northwoods.. i think this is bullshit....
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Northwood is out of production AFAIK. I pointed you to Powerleap
because in the past, they've stockpiled certain processor models,
for the explicit purpose of allowing people to upgrade old
motherboards. They don't stock all possible models, but they
do tend to have stock for a few years.

It looks like the last possible date that a processor could
have left the loading bay at Intel, is June 17, 2005.

http://developer.intel.com/design/pcn/Processors/D0104542.pdf

Paul
 
Paul said:
where are the 3.2s and the 3.4s Northwoods.. i think this is bullshit....

Paul wrote:
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Northwood is out of production AFAIK. I pointed you to Powerleap
because in the past, they've stockpiled certain processor models,
for the explicit purpose of allowing people to upgrade old
motherboards. They don't stock all possible models, but they
do tend to have stock for a few years.

It looks like the last possible date that a processor could
have left the loading bay at Intel, is June 17, 2005.

http://developer.intel.com/design/pcn/Processors/D0104542.pdf
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Quite interesting motivation from Intel:
"Market demand for the . . has shifted to higher performance Intel
processors". Northwoods were succeeded by Prescotts, which didn't give
higher performance at the same clock speed and that didn't reach much
higher frequencies before being discontinued and replaced by Pentium
M-based machines. Maybe the production costs of 0.13u chips became too high?
 
th said:
Northwood is out of production AFAIK. I pointed you to Powerleap
because in the past, they've stockpiled certain processor models,
for the explicit purpose of allowing people to upgrade old
motherboards. They don't stock all possible models, but they
do tend to have stock for a few years.

It looks like the last possible date that a processor could
have left the loading bay at Intel, is June 17, 2005.

http://developer.intel.com/design/pcn/Processors/D0104542.pdf
Click to expand...

Quite interesting motivation from Intel:
"Market demand for the . . has shifted to higher performance Intel
processors". Northwoods were succeeded by Prescotts, which didn't give
higher performance at the same clock speed and that didn't reach much
higher frequencies before being discontinued and replaced by Pentium
M-based machines. Maybe the production costs of 0.13u chips became too high?[/QUOTE]

It is quite simple really. You have X number of expensive, vibration
isolated Class-10 or better facilities. You need to move to 90nm
technology. One day, a forklift rolls into the fab and pulls all
the 0.13u production equipment out. Maybe six months later, they have
a ribbon cutting exercise, and 90nm parts start to roll out. The same
thing will happen to some 90nm lines, when 65nm comes in.

That is the price of progress :-)

Paul
 
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