This could be why INTC is down AH's.
--and a 5% drop in actual PC sales.--
Or maybe it's this.
Intel delays Pentium 4 upgrade launch
By Chris Kraeuter, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 4:06 PM ET April 14, 2003
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Intel is putting off the shipment of its latest Pentium 4 chip
by a few weeks due to technical problems, but the company did go ahead Monday with the
planned launch of a new chipset.
Intel had hoped to release its newest
Pentium, with a speed of 3 GHz and an
improved system bus, at the same time
of the launch of the 875P chipset. A bus
is a collection of wires through which
data is sent from one part of the
computer to the other.
However, the move was scrapped late
Sunday due to an "anomaly" on a small
number of processors discovered during
the final stages of testing, said
spokeswoman Laura Anderson.
Shares of Intel (INTC: news, chart,
profile) were unaffected by the
announcement, as shares rose 2.4
percent to $17.16 on Monday.
The system bus in the upcoming
Pentium, Intel's flagship line of computer
processors, will operate as fast as 800
MHz, up from its previous top-end speed
of 533 MHz. Intel said the bus will
transmit data up to 50 percent faster
than the previous version.
As for new products available Monday,
Intel introduced its 875P chipset,
formerly called Canterwood, which
accelerates the flow of data between a
computer's processor and its memory.
In personal computers, chipsets enable
the central processing unit, the memory,
and the input/output devices to interact.
Intel is expected to launch another
chipset, called Springdale, later this
spring.
Intel said the latest 3GHz Pentium 4 will
be priced at $417 each in quantities of
1,000 while the 875P chipset currently sell for $53.
The chipset and the latest chip support Intel's "hyper-threading" technology, which was introduced in
November last year. It lets a single processor process two strings of data simultaneously on certain
applications.
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