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Flaw Delays Shipment Of New 'Canterwood' Pentium 4
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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Ah, here's the text:
"Japanese web site PC Watch today claimed that Intel has put a stop to general shipments of the Pentium 4 3GHz and 800MHz chipset products because of a glitch discovered during testing.
If the report is correct - and we've contact Intel for clarification - it's rather an embarrassing admission.
The Japanese site thinks that Intel is using a small glitch as an excuse and in actual fact the problem is a severe limitation in supplies of the chipset and CPU.
Intel's embargo on the Canterwood chipset, which uses the 800MHz front side bus expired just a few hours ago, and there are already dozens of reviews of the product all over the world wide wibble."
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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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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...
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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Hopefully it's not another "math bug", where 2 x 2 = 4.1267999999!
... its great to see Intel take the initiative on their product and prevent a chip w/ even a minor flaw from entering the marketplace. While their stock price might take a minor hit today on the news that shipment has been delayed, imagine the fiasco down the line if thousands of flawed processors were in the wild, and Intel had to do a recall? FWIW, this was the "Right Thing To Do".
If only other prominent tech companies (*cough* *microsoft* *cough*) would take this sort of lead and ensure that only products which were found to be free of flaws entered the market, instead of releasing half-baked products and using the customer base as guinea pigs... just imagine how better off we'd all be...
The more powerful the chips intel pushes the less effcient the coder becomes, i remember when i used to tweak my programs so they would run optimally on a slower machines, now a days its like you need 192mb and 500mhz for word processing. People need to get back to the old school days when a 486/66mhz and 4mb RAM was minumum. I can understand how games evolve and more power is needed, but it's not just games that have this high requirement these days.
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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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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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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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A 533-MHz FSB Pentium 4 will run fine on Canterwood, Intel told us this morning. No word yet on whether or not Dell, Gateway, et al will stop shipments, or how long the delay will be. Or what the problem actually is, for that matter.
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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Long ago the developer/hardware equation was changed. Originally, hardware was far more expensive than the people developing the software. That was when investing lots of energy into hand-optimizing was the proper tradeoff.
Years ago, before 1GHz was considered a short term possibility, hardware costs had decreased and software costs had increased, to the point where it is the DEVELOPER who is the most expensive piece of the equation. Thus, we now are at the point where, with the exception of a few very specialized segments, we do whatever it takes to optimize the developer time in building software. That is not to say that developers can be careless and wasteful. But that developers should not waste time optimizing code. IFF performance is an issue, THEN one takes measurements and optimizes critical areas consuming the majority of time. Beyond that, it just isn't worth it. Today's 3GHz machines with GB of RAM only reinforce that this is the only appropriate approach to software development.
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.
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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...
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
The chip was so fast, it identified itself as an AMD. :)
Its such a tired argument, really. The fact is, the Pentium4 clocks awsomely by design, with an (intentional) tradeoff in IPC, while the Athlon is the opposite. They are both neck and neck now performance wise. So many people think that Intel "screwed up" on the IPCs. This is complete bullshit, they just took a different tactic.
The Pentium M is essentially a modified P3, which extra cache, SSE2 and a faster FSB. Since the P3 was at least in the same IPC ballpark as the Athlon, I'm sure the M is going to clean up at similar clockspeeds. However, again, it doesn't clock as high.
Just different tactics, they are all really quite comparible from a design (and performance) point of view. The only problem is the public perception of MHz being the only factor. For some reason this does not occur in the video card market, just in CPUs.
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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,
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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Floating point operations using integers on Pentium Is returned non-integer values. Let's take 2,0 divided by 2,0. The result of the previous division for example could have been 0,99999959335. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong (And i'm sure someone will).
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