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Intel Delays Dual-Core Processor, Plans New Server Chip

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-step-forward-two-steps-back dept.

Kajakske writes "Intel said Thursday that it is pushing back the release of its first dual-core processor by a year to 2005 and adding a new microprocessor for servers to its Itanium II lineup. On the other hand, Intel is moving forward in the area of new technologies."

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  1. big whoop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    anybody remember that? big whoop..what is that, like 85, 86?

  2. Names by termos · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Intel executive was referring to its next-generation processors at the 90-nm process node, code-named Prescott and Dothan.
    And next year out name-genious will name our products [insert-two-random-snobby-names-here].

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    1. Re:Names by 3.5+stripes · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I vote for Percy and Hawthorne

      Pip pip cheerio!

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      He tried to kill me with a forklift!
  3. First Reply! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Reply!

  4. smelling which way the WINd is bullowing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Buy November, the fix was in. Attorney General John Ashcroft had indicated that he had little interest in pursuing the case, and several Department of Justice Antitrust attorneys had already left, disillusioned. The result was a settlement neatly summarized by the financial analysts we cited at the time: "a major win; no substantive change in business model or R&D practices; maintain Buy."

    Ashcroft had declined to excuse himself from the case: despite having taken $20,000 in campaign contributions for his Senate campaign from Microsoft and refused to disclose contacts with the company. That said, the contribution hadn't done him much good: he still lost the race to a dead man.

    So yesterday, remembering its manners, Microsoft got its chance to thank the Administration properly, and it timed the announcement to perfection.

    For the first time in its history as a public corporation, Microsoft will pay a dividend to its shareholders. Technology companies loathe paying dividends, although a few pay a token sum. Historically, they prefer to buy back public stock to increase the company's share price: IBM, Intel, Sun and Cisco have spent billions on share purchase programs that effectively shrink the company. Scott McNealy told us it would be a cold day in hell before Sun ever paid a dividend, although in strict terms, both dividends and buy backs are equally money down the drain to a corporation.

    Why is this so well timed? On January 6, President Bush announced his new budget, and its centerpiece is the elimination of tax on stock dividends, at the eye-watering cost of $370 billion over ten years."

    va.msn.?net? a billyun to won shot. keeping the forgerIE hot, @leased 'til the 'deal' is dumb.

  5. Re:Story I wrote while my IP was banned, Part 2 by Obersturmbannfuehrer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    have you ever thougt about an... institution? perhaps you should check into one.

  6. I vote lib-dem by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    But if anything was ever going top make me vote Labour it would have been Prescott's punch.

    How can you not love a man who, when on dozens of live tv cameras, punches an ugly Welsh fucker with a mullet?

    1. Re:I vote lib-dem by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Wouldn't that be racist then?: No. The Welsh bit was my own comment - Prescott had no idea of nationality when he punched him.


      Wouldn't that be failing your role as an example to the rest of us (proles)?: Arguably. Personally I think he did a great job with that punch. Others may disagree, but I am not one. I don't think that being in a position of authority means you have to take any shit directed at you.


      Wouldn't that be common assault, caught on camera, and gone unpunished?: There was talk of a criminal charge, but it was decided it'd go nowhere. Before you scream about inequalities etc, perhaps I should remind you about the circumstances: as he walked to a public occasion, a man threw an egg into his face, hard, at point blank range. Prescott turned and punched him. As it is I'm already thinking Prescott is in the right, but of course his defence is that he didn't know he'd been egged, just that a protestor (with mullet, don't forget) had just hit him in the side of the head, so he fought back.


      Wouldn't that amount to the complete adn abject abuse of the power...: No. I am satisfied that he didn't use his position to avoid prosecution or anything similar. The only argument is your 2nd point, which suggests that even if it is an understandable reaction, he should have restrained himself. People's opinions will differ on this point, but I am of the opinion that he should not have to be saintly.

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  8. Wow.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm reading this article at -1, and there hasn't been a single 'In Soviet Russia' joke yet.

    That's gotta be a first ..I mean we are discussing 'hyperthreading': that one's being handed to you !

  9. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...processors brain YOU!!