Intel Announces New, Slower, Chip

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Intel Announces New, Slower, Chip

Posted by chrisd on Wednesday February 12, 2003 @11:58AM from the because-you-don't-need-3ghz-HT-laptops dept.

kshkval writes "According to Business Week, Intel is marketing the Centrino, a 1.6 Ghz chip that is slower than previous laptop processors from Intel, but does more. Hey, isn't that what Apple and AMD have gotten so much guff about? The worm turns..."

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Go INTEL! by naelurec · 2003-02-12 12:00 · Score: 5, Funny

A better built, more efficient chip .. I like it. Though since its winter, I'll stick with my AMD chips to keep me warm.
1. Re:Go INTEL! by MalleusEBHC · 2003-02-12 12:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  (fade to daydream of "Intel-Pentium-4-Mobile-Hyperthreading-Altra-Mobil e")
  
  ***Error. Your fade has been interrupted and your laptop put to sleep mode due to low battery.
2. Re:Go INTEL! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 12:41 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Sure, but if AMD made this new 1.6GHz chip, they'd call it a 2100+ just to confuse everyone.
from the because-you-don't-need-3ghz-HT-laptops... by dynoman7 · 2003-02-12 12:00 · Score: 5, Funny

we don't?!?!

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Niiiiiice logo.... by llamaluvr · 2003-02-12 12:00 · Score: 2, Funny

The logo, featuring a striking magenta color and a completely new shape, suggests flight, mobility, and forward movement.

Sold!

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1. Re:Niiiiiice logo.... by cymen · 2003-02-12 12:06 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Looks like a great logo for a new feminine product--not a processor... Logo within logo! What next?
Sideways-ass logo by clmensch · 2003-02-12 12:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Is it me or is that logo a two-colored sideways ass? Awful.

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1. Re:Sideways-ass logo by IonSwitz · 2003-02-12 21:51 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  It's just you, dude... It's just you.
  
  If you squint a lil, it does look like the
  profile of a parrot's beak, with the Intel logo as an eye. ie, it's a self-portrait from the marketing department, saying "Polly wants crack".
  
  "Centrino", by the way, wouldn't that mean "One hundred rhinos"? Nice.
Take that! by CommieBozo · 2003-02-12 12:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Moore's Law doesn't stand a chance!
Yay! Moore's law in reverse! by CoolVibe · 2003-02-12 12:04 · Score: 4, Funny

Cool, what will we get in 40 years? Do we get the ENIAC back? Now _that_ is what I call a computer. Woohoo!
1. Re:Yay! Moore's law in reverse! by Drakonian · 2003-02-12 12:13 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I think it's going to go even faster in reverse. You might get the Analytical Engine or maybe even the abacus!
  
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Wow .... by taniwha · 2003-02-12 12:04 · Score: 1, Funny

just in time for Valentines day ....
1. Re:Wow .... by enos · 2003-02-12 12:06 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  just in time for Valentines day
  
  because nothing says 'you're hot!' like a new processor...
  
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Re:"bout time... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 12:06 · Score: 5, Funny

They were going to use experimental "Centium" chips, but they smashed them all together accidentally. The results were virtual processors, dubbed "centrinos" by physicists. Make absolutely sure you don't place your centrinos by anticentrinos. Also, the chips have a small mass, and count as dark matter.
Beware! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 12:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't let your Centrinos collide with Anti-Centrinos, or you'll get a huge explosion that will rain Pentinos, Athlinos, and other junk.
Logo? by cascino · 2003-02-12 12:12 · Score: 5, Funny

The new Intel Centrino mobile technology brand name will be represented by a new logo carrying the famous Intel Inside® mark. The logo, featuring a striking magenta color and a completely new shape, suggests flight, mobility, and forward movement.
Yeah, either that, or "disposable feminine product"
1. Re:Logo? by Soko · 2003-02-12 12:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  My first was thought that someone pulled 2 of the wings off of the MSN butterfly.
  
  Saaayyyyy.....
  
  Soko
  
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Great. by amberspry · 2003-02-12 12:13 · Score: 2, Funny

Brown says: "Megahertz are no longer important..."
There go my bragging rights...
In related news by blurfus · 2003-02-12 12:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Intel discovers that size isn't everything...

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at an Intel Sales seminar I attended once... by unicorn · 2003-02-12 12:15 · Score: 4, Funny

A couple years ago I went to an intel sales seminar for retail salespeople (amazing how you can dummy a paystub with photoshop, and a scanner) and halfway through the presentation the trainer threw out "Who knows what iComp is?"

The entire room lost it when I yelled back "A cheesy marketing ploy!"

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Re:New marketing, just wait (commercial) by $$$$$exyGal · 2003-02-12 12:29 · Score: 5, Funny

New Commercial from Intel:
*Man takes off his pants and forlornly looks down at his crotch.* "Don't worry!", says the hot naked chick, "Size doesn't matter!". *The man happily jumps in the bed and starts pumping his hips faster than a llama can spit.* "HEY!", yells the hot mama, "SLOW DOWN! It's not the speed, it's how you use it." *Commercial cuts to Intel CEO wearing a suit, sitting in a leather chair*

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Re:New marketing, just wait (commercial) by Pharmboy · 2003-02-12 12:34 · Score: 2, Funny

*Man takes off his pants and forlornly looks down at his crotch.* "Don't worry!", says the hot naked chick, "Size doesn't matter!". *The man happily jumps in the bed and starts pumping his hips faster than a llama can spit.* "HEY!", yells the hot mama, "SLOW DOWN! It's not the speed, it's how you use it." *Commercial cuts to Intel CEO wearing a suit, sitting in a leather chair*

Ok, someone OBVIOUSLY is spending entirely too much time downloading pr0n. :-)

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in Q3 2003.. by grub · 2003-02-12 12:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Intel will announce "Centrino with Wings, for those heavy flow days."

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Re:New marketing, just wait (commercial) by deadsaijinx* · 2003-02-12 12:42 · Score: 2, Funny

lol, excellent commercial, it would be banned from american air waves, but then again, galileo was excommunicated, so genuis is never appreciated.

on a non-related note, the game on your journal rules - but it might be time for you to stop dling pr0n... just a thought.

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Re:first post! by Ponty · 2003-02-12 12:44 · Score: 3, Funny

If you had the newer, slower chip, you wouldn't have gotten the first post. Because, as we all know, Intel chips make the Internet go faster.
Re:"bout time... by Ponty · 2003-02-12 12:46 · Score: 5, Funny

It's the particle released when you smash together two Apple Centris Macs. Because there aren't many Centrises available anymore, they couldn't use as many Centrinos per chip as they wanted, so they had to drop the speed back down to 1.6GHz.
Re:New marketing, just wait by Sebastopol · 2003-02-12 12:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Yup. I remember that whole brouhaha a few years back.

But actaully, Vermont is mostly happy and hippy.

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AT LAST! by sryx · 2003-02-12 12:54 · Score: 2, Funny

I knew Moore's Law would break eventurally, I guess I always hoped it would be by releasing a faster chip and not a slower one :P
-Jason
Re:New marketing, just wait by Ponty · 2003-02-12 12:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Unilever: Because you only need one Lever.
Centrino 2000+ by u19925 · 2003-02-12 12:58 · Score: 2, Funny

I bet the new chip running at 1.6 GHz, will be marketed as Centrino 2000+.
because-you-don't-need-3ghz-HT-laptops... by miketang16 · 2003-02-12 13:13 · Score: 1, Funny

change that to "the although-you-don't-need-3ghz-HT-laptops...it'd-sti ll-be-nice-especially-with-a-small-carry-along-car -battery dept.."

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Better Lover: Slower, but Does More by handy_vandal · 2003-02-12 13:42 · Score: 2, Funny

Isn't this what women want? A lover who is slower, but does more ....

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Is this at all related to the moore's law article? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 13:51 · Score: 1, Funny

which states that moore's law may not be accurate? I would link to it but I have the new better slower chip... I just dont have the processing power. Its not a dupe story is it?
Re:"bout time... by JebusIsLord · 2003-02-12 13:56 · Score: 4, Funny

Actually i believe a Pentium-4 decays naturally into an Athlon, a Duron, and an anti-centrino.

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Re:"bout time... by The+Jonas · 2003-02-12 15:47 · Score: 2, Funny

I haven't been eating any 'Apples' lately. Would that be called a "Malnutrino?" But seriously folks, the RIAA has teamed up with a famous actor to release the byte-sized 'Alpacino' processor. "Say hello to my little friend!"