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Intel CEO sets caps-lock key for next irate memo

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By John Paczkowski

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"This is not the Intel we all know." That's what CEO Craig Barrett wrote in a recent companywide memo reprimanding employees for the delays and production missteps that have plagued the chip manufacturing giant in the past year (see "Intel CEO: The buck stops there"). But after the company's most recent announcement, I bet even Barrett is wondering if he spoke too soon. On Thursday afternoon, Intel said that the 4GHz version of its Pentium 4 processor that was scheduled for release this fall won't ship until the first quarter of 2005. Another unfortunate miscue for a company that this year alone has recalled a new chipset (Grantsdale), delayed the launch of another (Alviso), and canceled one chip entirely (Tejas), but one that suggests that the company is perhaps reconsidering its traditionally quite aggressive schedules. "I think it's a consequence of Craig Barrett having laid down the law to Intel last week that he didn't want any more broken schedules. When management says, 'Meeting your schedules is a priority,' then the natural outgrowth of that is people make more conservative schedules," Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst with Insight 64, told NetworkWorld Fusion. "I think there must be some sort of amnesty program. If your schedule is in trouble, this is the time to admit rather than the month before it's due. You can finesse a lot of stuff, but if you said you were going to have 4 GHz by the end for the year and you don't, somebody is going to pick up on it."