Tejas and Jayhawk
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Tejas was a code name for Intel's microprocessor which was to be a successor to the latest Pentium 4 with Prescott core. Jayhawk was a code name for dual processors with the same Tejas core. The cancellation of the processors in May 2004 underscored Intel's historical transition of its focus on single-core processors to double-core processors.
In early 2003, Intel showed the design of Tejas and a plan to release it sometime in 2004, but put it off to 2005 later. Intel, however, announced it canceled the development on May 7, 2004. Analysts attribute the delay and eventual cancel to the heat problem due to the huge consumption of the core, as that was the case in development of Prescott and its mediocre performance increase over Northwood. This cancellation resulted in a couple of things. The first was Intel's intention to focus on dual-core chips for the Itanium platform and for the desktop, the focus shifted to the Pentium-M from Centrino notebooks (which is an upgraded Pentium 3 itself) and the possibility of using it for dual core processors.
This transition marks the end of this line of CPU development from Intel that started back with the original Pentium 4.
Reference
- Intel Halts Development of 2 New Microprocessors (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/business/08chip.html)