Intel's first round of dual-core processor offerings took off in July 2005, besting AMD's efforts by nearly a month. Under normal circumstances, having a market lead is always a formidable advantage, but in the case of the Smithfield core used for the first generation of Pentium D processors (800-series), things didn't turn out all that rosy. First and foremost, the Smithfield was basically a larger Prescott with dual processing cores on the same die; and we all know how well received the Prescott lineup itself was. A normal Prescott core processor was already running very warm and its performance to price ratio was contested easily by AMD's Athlon 64 lineup..



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