Intel Pentium D and Pentium XE Dual Core Processors

Intel once seemed like a distant second in the world of dual core processors when AMD made their initial plans known early last year.  At the time, Intel had no public plans to move into the world of multiple core processors and were still struggling with a move to Prescott core processors.  Today, Intel had more than 30 complete systems using dual core processors on display and they were more than open in their discussion of the up coming cores and their features.

Two new processor lines were 'sort of' announced at the show: there will be both an Extreme Edition dual core, and a standard dual core Pentium processor...but this time without the '4' suffix.

Here is a quick run down on their current roadmap.