listening to earnings report, paul just said that intel sold
lots of 3 GHZ processors and helped give revenue a boost, doesn't
sound like a paper launch or lack of demand of high end cpus. Hopefully the geopolitical situation will be settled by the second half of the year so a sustained expansion can get into
gear.

A vedio add at that, I am no CPU expert but I found the add
misleading not that intel has never been guilty of that, it
seems to imply better bandwidth with athlon 64 though a 64 bit
processor may help ,the major bottlenecks are with memory subsystems which are just now begining to reach the potenial of the 32 bit processors, just my laypersons opinion.

Hey bone when was the last time you designed,debuged or fine
toned the production of a multimillion transistor CPU. If you
are really good at it you should apply for a job at intel and then you may get some of those options too.

Excellent points wbmw, my gut feeling is that hyperthreading 2,
800 Mhz bus, and 1 meg of L2 will keep intel ahead of hammer.
I would not be surprised if AMD is looking at adding some
form of hyperthreading to there CPU's, maybe they have and
found out its not as easy as adding on mmx instructions.

Inquirer posts very early benchmark comparison of athalon 64 Vs.
pentium4, athalon 64 had 1 meg L2 and was at 1.2 Ghz(who knows what that will be in Quanti speed?). It appears the pentium4 mangaged to stay ahead and it was a run of the mill 2.2 with only
512k L2 and they were using slower memory ? Maybe prestone will
have nothing to worry about, but these are very early results
so I would not read to much into them.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6737

Top 20 3D 2001mark scores, its a clean sweep for intel,there
may be one AMD setup in there as an unknown, otherwise if your
a gamer and want top performance for Xams then your choice is
simple buy intel.
http://gamershq.madonion.com/lounge/fastestwebmasters/#2

Three Minutes With Paul Otellini
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107238,00.asp

Intel will eventually launch a 3.4 Ghz northwood next year,
if the rumor is true all I can say is bravo intel team.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1038444807

Re TMSC having .13 problems. The fact that no graphics card
is shiping on .13 speaks for itself. The ATI 9700 is a great
card, at .13 um it would have been an outstanding card.

Intel courting gaming crowd

http://www.intel.com/home/ads/learn_more.htm?pl_code=MIHC110C6489P107408B107409S1&cprn15905=1042...

If your going to report rumors might as well
give a direct link, sorry about that.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6096

Intel to go after AMD's bread and butter?

http://overclockersclub.com/newscomment.php?article=EpFyVAAkuyPnvymggz

I am not sure how reliable the information is, the
article also claims granite bay may not be released as expected.

re Paul Otellini, on web cast, first I apologies for misspelling Mr. Otellini's name; I listened to the webcast
one more time it occurs at about slide26, hearing it again
it seems that motherboards available at the time for Pentium
4 will be able to accept Prescott. It appears Intel is listening to its OEM and motherboard customers as maintaining
socket compatibility was a recurrent theme, current Itanium2
systems will be able to upgrade to Madison which should obviously same the same socket. With this approach potential
customers will know that they could keep the same platform
for at least 3-5 years and benefit from performance enhancements
along the way, one of the excuses to delay upgraded is also removed.

As an aside during Q&A, CEO Craig R. Barrett made it clear
that AMD or any other competitor is taken seriously, he said
this in a very professional and respectful manner, in stark
Contrast to the former CEO of AMD whose remarks about competitors were often less the respectful.

Prescot will be socket compatibile with current motherboards.
I was listening to Paul Otenelli on the web cast, I thought
I heard him mention that prescot will be socket compatible
with chipsets and motherboars out now, he mentioned that new
chipsets (sprindale?) would also be released to further exploit
prescot's potential. I hope I did not misunderstand this, did
anybody else hear this.

Follow up on 2.0 Ghz Celeron
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q4/021016/index.html
When overclocked two 3.0 Ghz it gives an athlon 1800 xp
a run for its money; to bad intel didn't give it 256 K of
L2 cache; I haven't read to review with a fine tooth comb
but the impression I got was that Tom liked it.

Inquirer seems to think 3.06 Ghz P4 will launch along side
granite bay chipset.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5797

A question concerning hyperthreading and bandwidth,does a
hyperthreading CPU benefit from higher bandwidth more
than one that is not capable of hyperthreading. In the next 6 weeks Intel will release the high bandwidth granite bay chipset and the first hyperthreading CPUs is this just a coincidence or does the effect of hyperthreading benefit more when more bandwidth is available. Thank you in advance for any responses.

Thanks EOM

Thank you for the insightful response, is tomorrow the
official launch date for the 2.0 Ghz Celeron, if so then
there may be some reviews up tomorrow morning.

Hello everyone; does anyone know what the die size of the
new 2.0 Ghz Celeron will be, will Intel actually go to the
trouble of making them smaller than the Northwood core, in the
past only part of the L2 cache was active on the Celerons. I
guess there are pro's and con's to both these approaches. I see
some are already on sale at a local screwdriver shop up here
in Canada. I am surprised I haven't seen any reviews of it yet,
it should be a decent over clocker for the enthusiast crowd.