Dual Core
Three mainstream dual-core variants of Pentium 4 are in the pipeline. Intel has the intentions of having a 60-80% increase in performance per clock-speed and it is likely to be marketed as Pentium D. These chips are proposed to be launched in late 2005.
The Pentium-D processors would actually be two connected Prescott cores. The consumption of power is estimated above 130 watts. The 1066 MHz bus is the main difference between the EE edition of P-D and the other mainstream models along with retaining the Hyper Threading technology for each core.
