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Analyst Doubts Intel's Dual-Core Demo

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-just-wierd dept.

bakeacake writes "At Xbitlabs they have a article on the possibility that Intel's Dual core Preview at the IDF was not real. Would Intel sink this low? "An analyst expressed doubts about demonstration of a 'real' dual-core microprocessor during an Intel's recent demonstration at Intel Developer Forum Fall 2004 in San Francisco, California. Insight's Nathan Brookwood believes that Intel was most likely to showcase a dual-processor system instead of a dual-core processor-based system during the show.""

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  1. Nothing to see here. by njfuzzy · · Score: 5, Funny

    This article is pure speculation. Yeah, well I doubt the reporter was at the show... I mean, he *could* just be saying he was there.

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  2. Rather Fishy by cloudscout · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dan Rather has uncovered 8th-generation photocopies of some internal Intel memos confirming that the actual dual-core processor was AWOL during the Devloper Forum.

    1. Re:Rather Fishy by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Swift-Server Veterens for Truth meanwhile has posted a story from Steve Job's cousin's roomate claiming that the Apple IIe did not in fact exist.

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  3. N64 demo was better. by Kenja · · Score: 5, Funny

    I recall a demo of the Nintendo 64 that had an SGI reality engine system under the table.

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  4. It's all in the typing by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 5, Funny
    Of course the demo was fake. If you look closely at the chip surface you'll see that where it said:

    Pentium 4 Dual Core Prescott

    That was actually typed using a 1974 IBM Correcting Selectric II typewriter on loan from CBS.

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  5. Faked Demo? Happens all the time. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to work at what is now a major telecomm company ( hint: now owned by a French telecomm giant ).

    We were at a show once pitching a new router that simply Did Not Work. To make matters worse, the case for our engineering sample was damaged just before the show.

    Truth: We got a block of wood. Painted in black. Attached some LED's with wires on it that blinked randomly. Put it inside a rack with a smoked glass door.

    "Demoed" the crap out of it for 16 hours over three days. I had new respect for the ability of our sales people to talk bullshit for so long without opening that freaking rack door.