Intel to Dump Pentium 4 in Favor of Pentium M

Opinion writes "According to The Register, Intel is to dump its Pentium 4 plans in favour of the new Pentium M architecture. The scrapped Tejas and Jayhawk processors represented Intel's next-gen 90nm P4 CPUs, due to arrive in 2005."

Comments

Where are they going to dump them?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll pick up as many as i can carry..

Re:Where are they going to dump them?

[Rick.C]

I'll pick up as many as i can carry..

Wear an oven mitt... they tend to run HOT!

End of an era?

[swordboy]

So... What's the deal with Moore's law? It appears that heat density vs. pricing trends are now causing microprocessors to compete with charcoal (very hot, very cheap).

Is this the end? Or is Intel just trying to squeeze every last drop of cost out of a deal with IBM on their silicon-on-insulator patents?

Re:End of an era?

[croddy]

or are they just feeling the heat from AMD?

...or is that heat coming from their current products? ;-)

Re:End of an era?

[CKW]

> When are the processor companies goign to invest in the diamond wafers?

Oh, if only the big huge ultra-competition-paranoid hyper advanced ultra-tech companies full of PhD Phycisics and Electrical Engineers would adopt this ground-breaking technology that I a lowly luser know about!!!!! The fools!!! They're missing the boat!! Holding back progress!! How could they possibly be so stupid!!!?!??!?? It's it all so obvious!!!!

Re:End of an era?

[dasmegabyte]

I can't wait to see how they spin this is marketing.

"Say, guys? When we told you that clock speed was the only factor in speed, and that a long pipeline was the only way to go, we were joking! NO NO NO, wait, don't go buy AMD chips or G5s, because -- uh -- they're the suck. Look, a dancing guy in a shiny suit uses our chips!"

Pentium mm

[Mad Man]

due to arrive in 2005

Shouldn't that be Pentium MMV?

Re:Pentium mm

[killmenow]

Shouldn't that be Pentium MMV?

I get the roman numerals thing, but I couldn't help thinking of a different meaning for MMV. So...

Shouldn't that be Pentium YMMV?

Re:Pentium mm

[mrogers]

Your megahertz may vary?

Re:Pentium mm

[SpryGuy]

Could be worse... they could come out with the Pentium DMV

Instructions have to queue up forever before they're executed. Talk about long pipelines!

AMD

[kpogoda]

Looks like the recent AMD press and popularity has forced Intel to rethink its business strategy. Here is my most recent ocrrespondence with Dell Sales Support. You should find it amusing: Problem Description: I am in the market for an AMD machine. I have been browsing your website but can't find an AMD processor-based machine. Do you sell any AMD machines? If not, I will shop elsewhere. Thank You. Dear Valued Customer, Thank you for choosing Dell Online Consumer Customer Care. I apologize for the inconvenience caused with regard to this issue. I have looked through your e-mail and show that currently Dell is not offering AMD machines. I have forwarded your message to management and I assure you they will look into this issue and will work on making improvements based on your feedback. Once again, I apologize and truly regret any frustration this matter may have caused. Thank you for your patience and understanding. They are both greatly appreciated. If you have any further questions or concerns, please visit the following website to contact us. www.DellCustomerCare.com Respectfully, Alexander ~DTC41593 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM CST Mon to Fri Dell's Online Consumer Customer Care

Intel is so far behind anyway

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

1979 - 86 (186 existed too but was a failure)
1982 - 286
1986 - 386
1989 - 486
1993 thru 2004 - Pentium (meaning 5-something), with a sub-version number

So, like, where's the Hexium, Heptium, Octium?

Re:Intel is so far behind anyway

[elmartinos]

And where are AMD's Biathlon and Triathlon?

Re:It's good that they didn't call this pentium 5

[Ruie]

You have a good point.

Does this mean that marketing folks at Intel can only count using one hand ? :)

Dear Slashdot:

[Paulrothrock]

Is that pronounced Pentium "emm" or Pentium "One Thousand?"
Signed,
Confused Mac User

Re:Dear Slashdot:

[It's all Krista's Fa]

Do you call your computer the "One Thousand ac"?

Hook 'em

[mgs1000]

Well, there goes my plan for having a Tejas Longhorn computer...

Prescott chips...

[Anonymous Coward]

I always thought naming a processor chip after a deputy minister who is responsible for transport but prefers to drive high-performance cars (Jaguars) for short distances, was the equivalent of putting on metal armour, climbing to a mountain during a thunderstorm, and waving a sword in the air while making disparaging comments about the gods.

You are groping for....

[Groo Wanderer]

"So, like, where's the Hexium, Heptium, Octium?"

I believe the term you are groping for is 'Opteron'.

-Charlie

(Apologies, I couldn't resist such low hanging fruit).

Re:hrm

[w3weasel]

I still have a couple Pentium I with MMX running and without a hitch. How much longer are you talking about?

That's not a fair comparison... you can hardly even fry an egg on those old processors.
Today's processors let you fry that egg with ease, while simultaneously calculating whether the egg preceeded the chicken, render the resulting proto-fowl in stunning 3D, with time left over to disprove your own existance.

Re:It's good that they didn't call this pentium 5

[rusty0101]

Well, when they come out with the Septium 7 chip, perhaps it will answer questions before they are asked.

Of course coming from Intel, one in 7 million responses will be wrong, there will be an instruction added to later dies that corrects for that and all binaries will have to be re-compiled to take advantage of that new instruction. The new instruction will cause two other errors to crop up in more common responses.

Re:No Suprise

[steveb964]

'Pentium IV' ? Ah, that sounds SO 2005 ...

ahh... people would pronounce it as 'Pentium i-vee', which would make me grit my teeth just as much when I hear people tell me that they have Windows 97 or Office 92 as an OS.

/rant

Another version 4 failure

[yngv]

Chalk it up as yet another product whose fourth version was bloated and disappointing.

Think DOS 4, Netscape 4, IE 4... any others?

Interesting how Windows skipped version 4...

Damn the M....full speed ahead

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

I have a P4 machine on every floor in my house Just when I was about to cancel my Natural Gas service, the go and try to Lower the heat output of chips.

Re:hrm

[Fex303]

Ever wonder about the reason why the fan is sitting there right on top of the processor?

It's like a hat for it, right? So it looks stylish. Otherwise the RAM will laugh at it...

Re:Huh?

[yngv]

I admit I was thinking in terms of home PC OS, but was wondering if Microsoft's decision to not name the successor to Windows 3.11 as Windows 4, but instead to go with dated versions (Windows 95), was in any way related to the apparent version 4 curse.

And where have I been? More like where haven't I been!.. After graduation, I quickly became involved in an international ring of sexual criminologists, culminating in...

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