>From what I've read, there isn't going to be a 4.0 P4 chip. It's not even on >the cards anymore. Just as all the reviews about the P4 said, it was a flawed design that Intel lazily brought out because they felt they owned the market. But faced with competition from AMD they are crumbling. They don't have a solid foundation in the P4 chips on which to build. They were getting by through brute force, simply throwing more MHz out, while the chips flaws lingered. And now they have finally hit the point where the poor design can no longer be hidden, heat and power consumption doomed the P4. I figure Intel must be doing some sort of drastic architecture re-design in the interim, and hence decided to skip this battle and cede to AMD for the time being, perhaps knowing that with its advertising machine it isn't going to loose totally.
The only place that Intel still has AMD thoroughly beat, is in marketing. That is what has kept them going ahead of AMD for the last six years. Intel's marketing juggurnaut is something that so far AMD has not been able to match. I expect to see AMD's Dual Core solution out before Intel's and running better than Intel's as well :). -Gel -----Original Message----- From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multicore would seem to be the way to go, but maybe there is some other issue with that. Maybe they are hoping the next stepping in die shrink will help them. Where are they now, .13 micron? AMD really has Intel's nuts in a sling in a bad way. Unless they have some killer product waiting in the wings that they have kept totally in the dark, they could be trailing AMD at the high end for the foreseable future. They might be on a totally different tack though. What about the Pentium M architecture? If I was Intel, I would get every ounce I could out of that chip because the power profile is so awesome and AMD has nothing really comparable to compete head to head. Corproate PCs don't need 3.0 GHz chips much less 4.0 GHz, so why not push all low-power systems for now? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:137065 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
