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INTEL'S P6 WILL ALSO BE A TWO CHIP AFFAIR, SAYS PC WEEK
(June 10th 1994) In the last issue we reported the surprising news
that the PowerPC 630 would be a multichip affair. Now PC Week in the
US reports that Intel's forthcoming P6 processor will also consist of
two chips. No one at Intel is formally commenting on the report, but
the US magazine reports that the successor to the Pentium will have a
separate 256k high-speed cache. The magazine expects the P6 to be
clocked initially at 133MHz and to produce SPEC mark ratings of 200
or more. In addition it reports that the chip will initially be
manufactured in 0.6 micron silicon before being moved to 0.4. This is
new - at previous briefings Intel has always referred to the P6 as an
0.4 micron part.
Other news that the paper has gleaned suggests that Intel will crank
out 120MHz Pentiums in volume by the second quarter of 1995 and
133MHz chips by the third quarter. The company has already
demonstrated a 150MHz part, however the paper believes that the
commercial offering running at this speed will have to wait for
Pentiums to move to 0.4 micron technology - due, it says, late next
year.