[jaydee]

Originally posted by SparkedFire
P5, do you mean Prescott? The Prescott will be another verson of the P4. it will not be a P5 because it is based upon the same archetechure as the P4. Only a new archetechure gets a new name.

I don't know. :shrug:

While all of Prescott's technical innovations are important, there's another possible major change that Intel has yet to address: The name.

"Intel has not said for sure that it will call it a Pentium 4," Krewell says. But there are certainly enough changes to the processor to justify a switch to Pentium 5, he adds.

"That's a marketing call that Intel is playing close to the vest right now," he says. "There is no good reason not to change the name, but they may not."

If Intel doesn't bestow the P5 name on Prescott, the company would likely wait until its next big processor change, Krewell says. Expected more than a year after the launch of Prescott, that chip is currently code-named Tejas.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111270,00.asp

In a keynote here, Louis Burns, vice-president of Intel Corp., disclosed the "Prescott" processor, the next microarchitectural revision in the Pentium line. The Prescott processor will be released in the second half of 2003 at an undisclosed clock speed. Burns did not refer to the core as the Pentium 5, although all of Intel's major core revisions have been rewarded with a change in the brand name.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,6707,00.asp