No SMP with the P4

Along with a discussion of the IA-64 and its current status Intel announced that the Pentium 4 chip will not be supporting SMP but remain a single-processor device on PCs. Multi-processor systems will be handled by a new chip code-named Foster which is really a next-generation Xeon chip.

So, what this means is that many of us that are currently enjoying SMP in our home systems is that will be paying a bit more when upgrade time comes.

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