InfoWorld believes Intel Corp’s late-1997 shrink of Pentium Pro previously identified as the 0.25 micron Deschutes (CI No 2,948), will feature a new bus interface allowing manufacturers to build systems with as many as 32 processors up from the four-way Pentium Pro packages currently offered to vendors as the Standard High Volume board. As such it’s seen as Intel’s first real challenge to RISC’s enterprise scaling claims. The paper says Deschutes will include a Pentium Pro core with separate components such as secondary cache, CPU-to-cache bus and add-on daughter card. Deschutes is expected to clock between 266MHz and 333MHz.
