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Intel "East Fork" Technology Migration

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-towards-the-M-class dept.

Hack Jandy writes "When Intel's Centrino platform first unveiled, industry experts were surprised to see such great performance of the Pentium M, based off Intel's P6 (Pentium III) architecture. According to sources in the industry, Intel has officially adopted the approach to migrating Pentium M to the desktop (hence, "East Fork") to offset some of its Pentium 4 processor sales. Cheaper, slower, cooler, but higher performing processors are on the way to an Intel desktop near you!"

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  1. Really! Trust me! Just give me your money! by Blitzenn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yea right, they could get their new line of processors to work worth a crap. News services are heralding the death of the Itantium. Intel had to adopt AMD instruction sets to stay alive and competative. Sounds to me more like its a "let's go back to something we no works, rebrand it and tell 'em all it's better" pitch. I hop ethis one backfires on them too. I have some old P3's I will sell you cheaper than their rebranded ones. Just send me your money!