Tejas and Jayhawk: Intel´s official statement

I believe there´s much hype in the Web over Intel´s cancelled Tejas and Jayhawk processor cores. Some think it´s an echo of a crisis, some think that NetBurst turned out to be a dead end of processor evolution. I personally wouldn´t be up to such radical insinuations. It would be very strange for such a large company like Intel to include a processor series into roadmap and then just cancel it, because it suddenly turned out to be a dead end. Not logical.

A simpler and therefore more likely reason may be an answer to the market demands, in which Intel restructured its priorities, so they are better tuned for the future.

You, our readers, of course, have your own point of view that does or doesn´t coincide with mine. In either case, I believe it would be useful to be familiarized with Intel´s official statement regarding all this:

"We have re-prioritized our resources and no longer plan to deliver theprocessor on our roadmap known as Tejas. This product was disclosed at theSpring 2003 IDF as our next generation 90nm processor architecture and was tobe available in 2004, and more recently was slated to be released in 2005. Instead, in assessing the needs of office and home users, as well as ourtechnology capabilities, we´ve decided to accelerate our dual-core desktopclient products in 2005 and have bolstered our design teams and product roadmapplans to make this happen. This move complements a number of other effortssuch as Intel Hyper-Threading technology and other "T´s" that can deliver orenable more capabilities, performance, and flexibility to end users beyondprocessor speed. 2005 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting years forcorporate and consumer computing users as Intel and the industry work todeliver dual-core products ranging from our high-end Itanium processor-basedservers to our desktop and mobile product lines. We plan to have dual coreproducts in our server and desktop product lines in the marketplace in 2005 andwill ship our dual core mobile product for revenue in 2005. The acceleration ofour plans is based upon our ability to take advantage of our industry leadingprocess technology coupled with our industry leading manufacturingcapabilities, to bring newer and better computing features to the marketfaster. This move complements a number of other efforts such as IntelHyper-Threading technology and other technologies that can enable the deliveryof more capabilities, performance, and flexibility to end users beyondprocessor speed."

So, to understand what we should expect considering the above changes, here´s the roadmap table: