Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

This is something very interesting I spotted at Aces Hardware:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bph08342/bph08342.pdf

Its specs for a HP A64 based PC. Of particular interest is the processor description
as a 1.8 GHz Athlon64 with 1 MB L2 cache and a QuackHertz rating of 3100+.

This is great news for Intel, especially if the 3100+ is as bogus as the numbers for
the last few Athlon introductions. We are talking about a uP that is much larger than
the Northwood P4, uses SOI processing instead of bulk, 9 layers of interconnect
instead of 6, and a 700+ pin package instead of a 478 pin package. This thing will
be way more expensive to make than Northwood or Prescott and perhaps as much
as 3 or 4 times more to make than a Barton Athlon. I wonder how many 130 nm
A64s AMD can afford to sell? What was it JSIII said about Willamette - it was way
too big? ROFL!