by Anna Filatova
07/25/2002 | 11:34 PM
Intel officially announced that they would not move all the existing 0.18micron Pentium 4 processors (these are the models working at 1.7GHz, 1.8GHz, 1.9GHz) to the new E0 core stepping announced in the end of April. And it means that Pentium 4 (Willamette) family is about to end up its living really soon.
Actually, this fact is not at all surprising: Pentium 4 family is very rapidly moving to 0.13micron Northwood core (see this news story), and the 0.18micron Willamette core (with the twice as small L2 cache) sound its application in the Celeron family. However, it will not last long even in this 0.18micron family, too. In Q4 this year Celeron CPUs will start moving to Northwood-256 core.