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Intel Delays Release of 4Ghz Chips

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the technical-difficulties dept.

bizpile writes "The AP is reporting that Intel's faster version of the Pentium 4 will not be available by the end of the year as previously promised. They told PC makers this week that the 4-gigahertz chip will not ship until the first quarter of 2005. Intel spokeswoman Laura Anderson said, 'We felt by adjusting the schedule for the products, we could better meet our customers' volume requirements and their high expectations.'"

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  1. Re:Shipping by SQL+Error · · Score: 5, Informative

    When was the last time you saw Intel or AMD delaying a product by months, and causing problems for suppliers?

    Prescott?

    Or if I wanted to be really mean I could mention Itanium. That was, what, 5 years late?

    AMD tends to be very conservative with its timetables, but even they have experienced problems.

    As for IBM, they've run into a wall at 90nm. But so has everyone else. Expect to see lots of announcements of dual-core (and multi-core) chips, and larger caches, but no great increases in clockspeed in the next few years.