Intel Delays Release of 4Ghz Chips

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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Re:Fix the Colors!

[Gleng]

Hmm, it seems that the way to fix it is to just remove the leading subdomain from the slashdot url. For example "it.", "games.", or "apple."

It seems to work in reverse too. So you can replace the "it." in this thread with "apple." to display it in the Apple colour scheme. (If you really, really wanted to)

It should be extremely easy to have an "Only use the default Slashdot colours" option in the user preferences. HINT HINT

The megaHURTz myth

[mcrbids]

Intel is now feeling some pain. They've built a brand around having more M/Ghz - which only matter superfically.

Being a multi-function device means that a CPU does multiple functions. As with ANY multi-function device, a model of CPU will do some things better than others.

X86 chips have traditionally been processing heavy, I/O weak, since hard, on-demand processing hsa been the driver of the X86 industry. (Video games, etc)

Contrast that with the Sun Sparc line of chips, or IBM's mainframe hardware, heavily optimized for I/O throughput. The needs of a rendering farm node are not well in alignment with the needs of a high-capacity file server.

Even within being "processing" demands, there is a wide, wide range. Floating point. Integer ops. Parallel proccessing. Different, even cross-compatible chips and chip lines will behave differently, performing better at some tasks than others.

But, for years now, Intel has been busy spending millions convincing the population that you can boil performance down to a single number, M/Ghz.

The cracks are beginning to show. AMD has made a solid business with "slower" (Mhz) ships that perform better. Their own Centrino line is "slower" but performs almost as well!

Intel needs to get a clue, and develop a set of benchmarks that truly show real-world performance. AMD has done quite a good job with their "+" rating. (EG, my desktop is an Athlon 2000+)

I give it 6 months, maybe a year. It'll be hard, but even Intel isn't so stupid as to put this off too long.