Intel’s Presler is Unstable

mmonnin (mmonnin) According to motherboard manufactures, Intel's 65nm due in January is having some stability issues.

November 15, 2005 8:17 AM ET in News,

Unspecified motherboard manufactures said that several Intel 65nm processors codenames Presler have stability issues. The CPUs include the 2.8GHz 920 and 3.0GHz 930 series.

Launch of end products based on the Intel Presler core may be pushed back from the January 2006 date originally scheduled by system vendors, the makers noted.

Source: Digitimes

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10 Comments:

  1. Shorty
    15 Nov '05, 8:31 am

    Shame that.

  2. airbornflght
    15 Nov '05, 9:28 am

    an intel chip that's unstable?...big surprise!!

  3. Thrax
    15 Nov '05, 11:36 am

    Intel chips are usually quite stable. The question you must ask is:

    An intel chip that, in some way, is debilitatingly poor? NO WAY!

  4. Gravite2090
    15 Nov '05, 12:24 pm

    Anyone pushing that manufacturing process would have problems at first including AMD.

  5. Leonardo
    15 Nov '05, 2:03 pm
    Anyone pushing that manufacturing process would have problems at first including AMD.

    Exactly. Intel has been rushing almost all their new products to market in the last year, and it is costing them market share. They have the best engineers in the business, the largest R&D budget, and the best name recognition, but their strategic planning has for so long been hijacked by marketing people. They are paying for it now. Intel's road map shows a lot of highways under construction, with bridges being built as fast as humanly possible.

  6. Leonardo
    16 Nov '05, 1:27 am

    Seems I spoke too soon.

    I've done some more reading on the Presler. To be fair, the Preslers tested by motherboard makers were engineering samples, not chips of the line. Engineering samples are given out for the purpose of compatiblity and stability testing.

  7. Thrax
    16 Nov '05, 2:37 am

    With a January '06 deadline, time is running out to finalise the chip and manufacture sufficient numbers for a volume launch. At this late in the game, with only six weeks to produce enough chips to ship, one would imagine that these "Engineering samples" would be final silicon. It's a little late to be revising.

  8. Enverex
    16 Nov '05, 5:18 am

    Why do I keep reading this thread title as "Elvis Presley is Unstable"?

  9. Leonardo
    17 Nov '05, 2:38 am
    Each of the two cores comes with Hyperthhreading technology, making a total of four threads in Windows Task Manager. Each core also spots 2MB of L2 cache, bringing a total of 4MB cache

    Assuming stability at some point, this CPU has the potential to be a Folding@Home monster! Granted that my #1 and #3 computers are both overclocked, but with hyperthreading enabled and two folding clients each, they both approximately (each) double the production of my System 2. I'm just imagining what a two core chip, each core in hyperthreading, total possible four Folding clients, would produce.

    Quote courtesy The Inquirer

    But just when I start scheming, AMD promises quad cores by 2007!

  10. airbornflght
    19 Nov '05, 7:21 pm

    amd is stepping up their game, so is intel. but intel's chips imo have always be lacking the turbo-diesel bulldozer affect that i get from an amd system. seems like whatever i throw at it it keeps going. i have a 3.2ht p4 rig and it just stops.

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