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Intel Introduces 1 GHz Chips
sheck was one of the first people to write about the release of Intel's 1 Ghz chip. Beating Intel to the punch, we already covered AMD's 1 Ghz Athlon. If you want more coverage check out C|Net. This corporate peeing match about who can release these machines first is pretty funny to watch.
Check out this Mac Plus (circa 1980s) running at 1 GHz.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schrier/plus.html
AMD's idea of "introducing a 1GHz chip" is that you can go to gw2k.com , order a PC with that chip and expect it to be delivered in a few days or weeks.
iNTEL's idea is that there are a few sample chips for manufactures to practice tweaking motherboards.
AMD has sent chips to the larger retail stores and they should be on the shelf at Comp USSR soon ( if not already ).
iNTEL will be selling Gigahertz chips retail in a matter of months at best.
These people define release in vastly different ways and it will take your typical PC user a few more years to work out the difference. As for me personally, I am just happy that this will hammer the prices of the Celeron or K6-2 I can actually afford farther into the cheap range.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
What makes this siutation interesting in two reguards is this:
First AMD now has corperate attentions. It produced the 1GHZ chip first. That demonstrates that it is a very serious player. My boss didn't know what AMD was a few weeks ago. He does now.
Second Intel is now having to dance to the beat of someone elses drum. How long has it been since they've had to do that?
I'm hoping AMD can keep this up. If they can I could be able to convince upper checksigners to start letting me put in AMD powered servers and such very soon. Trick is they have to keep delivering.