Intel's dead, competition's dead, the x86 CPU is dead.

At least for the next 18 months, that is.

For news of this magnitude, there are very few comments to this story. I think that most people are simply shocked that Intel has suffered such setbacks. The word war between Intel and AMD may surge to the wee hours of the morning, but I don't think anyone saw this comming - other than the lead engineer that left Intel a year or two back.

1066FSB with 2x 533FSB Dothans?
Maybe a little DDR2 @ 533 aswell?
That'd make a sweet Blade Server...

Throwing more cache on an already inefficient design won't help it much, if any. If anyone read the recent Xbit article, a lowly $99 Sempron 3100, with a whopping 256K of cache, was overclocked to 2.5Ghz on air and whooped both a P4 3.4 Northwood and Preshott at almost every game thrown at it. If Intel can't ramp up clock speeds any more, they're going to have to go to the Pentium M to stay competitive.

On the flip side, I'd like to see the reference 10GHz Pentium 4 that Intel used to make their claims about scalability. I'd also like to see the 4GHz Thunderbird that AMD is now benchmarking "relative performance" against. Ahhh, the joys of marketing...

Prescott sure did not last very long, did it ? It has only been available since February, and it is already on its deathbed.

I don't understand why Intel is taking so long to get the Pentium M available as a desktop platform. There seems to be a lot of potential customer demand for such a product. I would certainly be interested.

If they have to resort to 2 MB of cache on the Prescott to remain performance competitive, they will have a hard time being price competitive.

I just got my new case a few months ago, and when I was moving everything over from my old case, I decided not to bring the floppy drive along. Don't have SATA and my mb isn't gonna be updated anytime soon. If only those things would just hurry up and die though. Apple did have the right idea when they stopped building their computers with floppies.

I am guessing that Intel will now "surprise" us by releasing a 4ghz chip in the beginning of '05. Setting the bar lower and hoping people have a short memory works wonders for this company.

I read this on zdnet: The chipmaker also intends to emphasize more sharply technologies such as 64-bit functionality, HyperThreading and a security technology called LaGrande. It will also increase development efforts on dual-core chips with the goal of a 2005 release.

In other words, "The chipmaker intends to emphasize the usage of AMD tech."

Do you hear me finally? Do you copy? ;o)

As I said a million times, there won't be a 4.0Ghz Prescott ever. The question right now is, will AMD be able to mass produce its chips? They have the better performing, cheaper price and lower heat output CPU, but are they prepared to flood the world with it? That's the question. And I am afraid the answer is not. And hope I am wrong, because if they don't have the capacity, the OEMs will stick to Intel. And I am afraid that means AMD will gradually become the exclusive high end perfomance CPU for the ones who can afford it. Just hope that won't be true.

Prescott can't beat the heat!

Wow, maybe we'll actually see some innovation in the near future, instead of just "faster, faster!"

Who knows, maybe by 2010, we'll actually see the end of the sloppy drive!

there was not enough proof or research into the .09 tech,

Prescott is the problem, rather than the 0.09 tech as such, ask anyone with a Dothan :-)

What was the point of prescott then?

No, Netburst will scale to 10ghz....once it reaches a .005 micron process and is cooled to absolute zero....really.

*rubs hands in anticipation of his Winchester S939 3000+ purchase*

Intel wha?

Oh, and before anyone goes off about "just another Inquirer rumor," read this too:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1211&e=2&u=/nm/200...

Glad they are finally admitting that 10GHz is a little unreasonable for the Netburst architecture. The discussions of dual CPU chips seemed to make that irrelevant at any rate.