Intel Boosts Pentium 4 To 3.2GHz

The new Pentium 4 supports hyper-threading, a technology that Intel's been pushing to its Pentium line. Hyper-threading allows applications to 'see' a single processor as multiple CPUs, allowing more than one instruction to be processed simultaneously, and boosting performance by as much as 30 percent.

Versions of the chip using the 800MHz system bus, as well as the slower 400MHz and 533MHz buses, were unveiled Monday and shipped to PC manufacturers worldwide.

Likely the last bump-up before Intel launches its 90-nanometer Prescott processor later this year, the 3.2GHz Pentium 4 is priced at $637 in 1,000-unit lots, said Intel.

Several PC makers, including Dell and HP, began offering the 3.2GHz Pentium 4 among their customer CPU options as of Monday.

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