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Kate

I'm sure Intel thought going forward it was a slam dunk with P4
Craig and everybody involved in the decision knew exactly what they did when they decided to go netburst. Not everybody was exactly happy about it, the decision came at a price of human capital, a pawn sacrifice in chess-terms. However, Netburst was clearly the strategy to make most money, and this is what Intel is in the market for. Besides, they had a mobile-arch to fall back to if anything goes wrong, insofar it was sort of a no-brainer in a humble understanding - although not necessarily for more more subtly organized minds.

I believe you are right folks were indeed caught by surprise by really nasty issues in 90nm, but this happened many years later and purely speculation, i.e. not backed up by sources.

how do you get your AMD info? Many sources - including those inside intel. :)

K.