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90nm ramp!
I was surprised by a visit to best buy yesterday. Every desktop except one was a prescott! All the celeron machines were 3xx series, and many of the Pentiums were the new 5xx series. There was one 2.8Ghz northwood system, as the lone 130nm product. I checked out the circuit city web site, and they are in the same position with only a single northwood system left on the product list.
It seems Intel has succeeded in converting the entire product line to 90nm prior to AMD releasing any 90nm products.
--Alan


Cool. Yup, it seems the 90nm yields are much better then intel expected. Guess those Prescott power issues really are a design issue, not a process issue. So, remind me......... Who was it in the past that kept saying on these boards that "There is nothing wrong with intel's 90nm process"?

Must have been some smart guy