the Black Monarch wrote:alternatefutures wrote: Athlon 64 later this year and Intel releases Prescott early next year.
This "Athlon 64" that you speak of... don't you mean the Opteron?
Prescott is just the P4, only with a smaller die size.
Athlon 64 != Opteron
Opteron is the server chip codenamed "Sledgehammer" and Athlon 64 is the client side (i.e. desktop computers) codenamed "Clawhammer." Oh and I'm fairly confident in this being that I work there and specifically work in the Chip department.
As for Prescott, yeah, it's a die-shrink to the 90 nm process.


