Author: John Dillard
Date: 05:48:40 11/19/05
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On November 18, 2005 at 16:59:54, Yar wrote: >Top 10 Reasons Intel will not Participate in the Dual-Core Duel > >10. Tried to follow their own roadmap to get to the duel >9. Decided to take the "front-side bus" to the duel; got stuck in a bottleneck >8. The "Intel Inside" stickers they used to package the cores together keep >melting >7. Too busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Itanic >6. "Hey, we don't expect anyone to actually buy these things!" >5. Didn't want to compete when they realized that the duel would involve actual >"rules" of fair competition >4. They couldn't get a permit from the fire department to emit that much heat >3. No systems available yet - protective clothing used by manufacturers only >safe for up to 149 watts >2. Dell told them they weren't allowed to participate > >And the number one reason Intel won't accept the dual core duel: > >1. Moore's Law has been replaced by "Paul's Paradox": the number of canceled >products per year at Intel will double every year after the introduction of the >AMD Opteron processor. That's funny! I'd love to see a tournament on the quad G5 dual cores.
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