Pentium 4 533MHz FSB confirmed for early Q2
The Inquirer | at | by Mike
THE FIRST 533MHz front side bus boxed Pentium 4s at 2.40GHz will be offered early in Q2, confirming our earlier stories. Roadmaps seen by us show that early in Q2 Intel's top desktop chip will be a 2.40GHz processor which comes in both 400MHz and 533MHz front side bus versions, both of which include 512K level two cache.
In the same period, Intel wil make a 2.26GHz Pentium 4 and a 2.20GHz Pentium 4 available with the 533MHz front side bus, and available in boxed versions. For the first quarter, however, we will see Intel introduce its boxed 2.2GHz "Northwood" Pentium 4, and we believe the date for that is still the 7th of January, as we noted yesterday.