Aces Hardware has been prompted to dig through the Intel Museum to dredge up talk of an Intel Pentium 8. A roadmap "guesstimate" posted on Japan's PC watch features a processor code-named Nehalem due, according to the guestimate, in 2005.
Further research uncovered the wise words of an Intel architect, Doug Carmean, who confirmed he had been working on "the next all-new processor, a processor called Nehalem."
The interview is undated but Carmean says the 65nm processor, designed from scratch, could be called the "Pentium 8, or something like that."
Carmean said the processor might tip up in 2004, an assertion that leads us to believe the museum piece has been around for a while.
Intel, of course, won't talk about unannounced products, so we talked to a celebrated chip analyst here in the UK who told us: "It looks like that by the time this chip comes out -- probably in 2010 or something that -- Intel might finally succeed in producing a chip with a brain the size of a bumblebee."
"Better not quote me on that though," he added.
News source: The Inquirer
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