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Flaw Delays Shipment Of New 'Canterwood' Pentium 4

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-now-than-later dept.

bigal3du writes "Hardware-Unlimited has posted new information from Intel that they will be delaying the shipment of the new Pentium 4 3Ghz with an 800Mhz FSB. An Intel spokesman contacted Hardware-Unlimited early this morning to let the publication know that performance "anomolies" have been discovered, at the last minute, in validation testing and the processor will be temporarily delayed for shipment. Full details on Hardware-Unlimited.com Forums..." ninenet points to this PC Magazine article which explains the things that characterize the new chip and also mentions the delay.

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  1. Funny by 0x00000dcc · · Score: 4, Funny

    we start OUT the day telling us how cool the chip is, and END the day telling us the REAL story

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    1. Re:Funny by mahdi13 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Intel chip delayed due to a flaw...like that never happens, suprised they didn't ship it anyway like with the PIII's

      Oh wait...that was a 'feature'

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  2. Bah by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


    In 1980 I had a 1.023 MHz Apple ][+ and I could type ~70 WPM. Intel is pushing 3+ GHz chips and I can still only type ~70 WPM.

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    1. Re:Bah by Carbonite · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hmmm... Perhaps these new words are a million time longer?

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    2. Re:Bah by philovivero · · Score: 5, Funny

      In 1980, I had a TRS-80 CoCo where I could hold the "page-down" key and the text would fly by as fast as I could watch it.

      Now I have a P4 2.4GHz machine, and when I hold down page-down, my whole machine grinds to a halt as my Rube Goldberg-like operating system tries to phone home to Microsoft about my text paging habits.

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    3. Re:Bah by evilviper · · Score: 3, Funny

      And just how long have you been using Windows?

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    4. Re:Bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In 1980 I had a 1.023 MHz Apple ][+ and I could type ~70 WPM. Intel is pushing 3+ GHz chips and I can still only type ~70 WPM.

      Hmm ..

      Have you tried Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor? It may help.

      http://www.mavisbeacon.com/

    5. Re:Bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      1980? CoCo?

      You could only have three or four pages of text in that thing--no wonder the pages flew by!

      Save a blank document in Word. It's bigger than the CoCo's main memory.

      JD

  3. This is not true by Mohammed+Al-Sahaf · · Score: 3, Funny

    This article is a fabrication. The chip was never delayed. The blood of the rival chip makers was shed on the walls of Baghdad.

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  4. stupid blue man group by Cached+Hit · · Score: 1, Funny

    guess they cantership it...

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  5. Intel: Where Quality Is Job 0.99999999567 by tuffy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, had to say it :)

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    1. Re:Intel: Where Quality Is Job 0.99999999567 by furchin · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, by my calculations, Quality is job 0.99999999572, but then again, I'm on a Celeron.

  6. No Wonder by Gefiltefish11 · · Score: 3, Funny


    It's no surprise that they've had problems. "Canterwood" just has a bad sound to it. The working name will probably doom the product to failure. Next thing you know, we'll all be hearing about the "Canterwood" effect of hardware failure...

  7. Well duh... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Flaw Delays Shipment Of New 'Canterwood' Pentium 4

    Frankly I'm suprised a CPU made of wood would work at all.

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    1. Re:Well duh... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Frankly I'm suprised a CPU made of wood would work at all."

      Hey man, don't knock wood.

      This technology is actually quite fascinating. Not only is it very reliable, but it's also low voltage and resistant to random bit flippings caused by radiation etc.

      Check out this extreme closeup image of the processor, you'll see what I mean.

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    2. Re:Well duh... by tuffy · · Score: 4, Funny
      Frankly I'm suprised a CPU made of wood would work at all.

      Intel is simply branching out into new technologies.

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    3. Re:Well duh... by CyberKnet · · Score: 3, Funny

      Apparently with advanced use of wires you can have 100% accurate branch prediction. I have also heard it whispered that it is extremely environmentally friendly when formed from plantation trees... used in conjunction with the new fab process "chipper", one tree can produce thousands of "chips" suitable for use with "boards", which are made from the same substance.

      Amazing stuff, really.

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  8. Intel distances... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Intel distances themselves again from the Athlon."

    Or not. :)

    Sorry. Had to take a cheap shot at an Intel fanboy (OldGrayDave).

  9. Uh oh by hawkbug · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hopefully it's not another "math bug", where 2 x 2 = 4.1267999999!

  10. Vapor vs. shipping. by wowbagger · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, so to recap the previous article and this article:

    They compare a chip that is not shipping now, cannot ship now because of bugs, but when it ships will have a memory interface twice as fast as what is shipping now on the Athlon as well as a roughly 50% higher clock speed. In many tests the Athlon (which is shipping now) still won, and where it did not win it usually was over 50% as fast as this new chip (which is not shipping yet).

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  11. Re:Intel: Where Quality Is... by ZaPhOd42 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Divide by 0 error!

    Kernel Panic!

    BOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!

  12. Obligatory Pentium Jokes by xcomputer_man · · Score: 5, Funny

    Q. How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
    A. 1.99999289345, but that's close enough for non-technical people.

    Q. The Pentium conforms to IEEE standards for floating point math. If you fly in an airplane designed using a Pentium, what's the correct pronounciation of IEEE?
    A. Aiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

    Q. What's another name for the Intel Inside sticker they put on PCs?
    A. The warning label.

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    1. Re:Obligatory Pentium Jokes by svirre · · Score: 3, Funny

      We are the pentium of Borg! Mathmatics is irrelevant. Division is futile. You will be approximated.

      Ooohh... Star Trek refrence AND intel bashing... I sense geek cred is rising. :)

  13. Wait a friggen sec... by dethl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Intel is brining out a FASTER cpu while AMD is going to redo the desktop market with a 64-bit processor?

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  14. What they don't want you to know... by MoeMoe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Customer: What is the holdup in bringing out the new chip?
    Intel Rep.: We have recently uncovered some "anomolies" within the chip itself
    Customer: Would it slow down my computer?
    Intel Rep.: No...
    Customer: Would it damage my mobo or HD?
    Intel Rep.: No...
    Customer: Then what is this "anamoly" about?
    Intel Rep.: We forgot to make it un-"OC"able OK?!?!
    Customer: Ummm wait....
    **Click!**

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  15. Performance anomolies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    let the publication know that performance "anomolies" have been discovered,



    Yes, the new Intel chip seems to have a few issues.
    To see if your chip is affected, submit a story to Slashdot that includes the word "anomaly" or some variant thereof. If it comes out misspelled, you're fucked.

  16. The above post has not been modded down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    The above post really has a +5 score!

    The dastardly agents working on behalf of the corrupt western infidels CoyboyNeal and Taco conspired to mod the mighty M.S.S. down!

    Don't mod down the Minister!

  17. Actually....This might be true.... by Fallen+Kell · · Score: 2, Funny

    The chips given to the hardware reviewers were unlocked, and you could change the multiplyer on the chip however you wanted. They might have forgotten to change it back...

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  18. The real reason by InsaneCreator · · Score: 2, Funny

    The chip was so fast, it identified itself as an AMD. :)

  19. Improve your Technique by 4of12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Start thinking outside the box, dude.

    Start by considering an economical language, based on the powers of two, which you'll have to agree as being more suitable for computers than some 105 key piece of junk.

    For instance, start with only 8 letters, say,

    asdfjkl;
    and you should be able to improve your typing speed immensely.

    Also, pressing the space bar lots of times b e t w e e n chara c te rs will push your word count up quite a b i t, too!

    Sorry I can't provide more tips now, but I'm really busy producing some new CPU benchmark figures.

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