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Looking Forward to Intel's Grantsdale and Alderwood

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pci-express-and-onboard-wireless dept.

VL writes "Over the next several days, you'll be hearing a lot about Intel's significant upgrade to the Pentium 4 platform. Soon enough, that brand new Canterwood board you have will be yesterday's news as two new words will be on the lips of all enthusiasts... Grantsdale and Alderwood."

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  1. Next CPU revolution by caston · · Score: 3, Funny
    I think the next revolution in CPUs is going to be based on price. Once the CPU has been designed and the R&D is payed for why not churn out the silicon for mass markets sake.

    In fact I can invisage a day when most motherboards have inbuilt CPUs like they have inbuilt chipsets.

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  2. Alderwood? by blockhouse · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alderwood is a wood that, when burned, produces an aromatic smoke typically used for flavoring food. You can buy sacks of the stuff at Home Despot (so called because the manager of my local one is a tyrant) to put on the grill next time you barbecue.

    To me, Alderwood seems an unfortunate name for a chip. I don't think it's a good marketing decision to name a chip for a wood prized for its smoking ability. That seems to evoke images of chips overheating and melting down in a puff of smoke.

    1. Re:Alderwood? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny
      Yeah, just as "Start Me Up" (with it's attendant lyrics - who can forget 'You'd make a grown man cry') was a great theme song for Windows 95.

      Sometimes marketing gets it right.

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  3. What, no bathroom PC? by lsdino · · Score: 2, Funny

    A PC in every room, except the bathroom...

    Maybe Intel is just trying to save some room for growth for after every other room in the house has a PC.