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Subject: Re: Intel will benefit from this technological advance gradually !

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 17:01:44 12/16/02

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On December 16, 2002 at 11:29:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 16, 2002 at 10:46:55, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On December 16, 2002 at 09:33:55, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>
>>>It's not that simple. In every case there is complex reasons for any decision.
>>>While it is true that the bottom line is money. In this case the P4 design is
>>>having trouble scaling in frequency.
>>>
>>>
>>>MvH Dan Andersson
>>
>>You are right Intel is reaching a dead end road with the P4 it took them 2 years
>>to increase the speed from P4 1.5 Ghz to P4 3Ghz. But the upcoming technology
>>will be based on the true Pentium V (Remember what Pentium stand for) :)
>
>
>That is a normal rate of improvement.  Doubling every two years.

Murphy's Law which has held for a couple decades...

The statement that AMD or Intel is reaching a brick wall is also baseless. A
while ago, several hardware sites said that AthlonXP wasn't scaling when AMD
released AthlonXP 2200 processors. They've got AthlonXP 2800 processors
available now. Only proof that the monkeys who run hardware sites lack the
capacity to think.

Anyway, the Pentium 4 was designed to hit 5 GHz. Intel engineers are not inept.
Usually they exceed their design specifications. If I had to bet whether Pentium
4 would hit 5 GHz or not, I would bet that it would.

-Matt



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