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sgolds,
At least we now know how much Intel thinks Prescotts are worth compared to P4EE. It does not indicate that Intel is very confident with Prescott performance.
Joe


Sure, if you've already made up your mind, and you're only looking at the data in a way that supports that preconception. On the other hand, if you look at how intel has introduced new process technologies in the past, when trying to drive the market from the old to the new, and apply some logical thinking, there's quite another more likely explanation.....


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More likely, as soon as 3.4 Prescott ships, P4EE will be shut off, and in a few months, after Prescott is established, and the line is purged, nobody is going to care anymore about P4EE, if they ever did to begin with.
Looks to me, like intel is once again using the same method to drive the market away from the previous technology to the newer one that it's used before. Price pointing the newer chip below the top of the line previous chip has been done by intel a few times now, as I recall.
My guess is, that most P4 Northwood production, will all be a memory by the end of summer 2004.

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