Replies to post #8973 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[tecate]

I still think the engineers should hang their heads in shame.


I hear you.

[chipguy]

And in spite of all this - not to mention the much deeper pipeline - Prescott still fails to reach the same clock frequency as Northwood. I still think the engineers should hang their heads in shame.

I think one should still reserve judgement until we know
what that Willamette sized something in Prescott turns
out to be. Of course if it is just some RIAA inspired
piece of bloated fascistware that doesn't contribute to
application performance then I fully agree with you.

[Elmer Phud]

wbmw -

And in spite of all this - not to mention the much deeper pipeline - Prescott still fails to reach the same clock frequency as Northwood.

When Pentium first came out it ran at 60 & 66MHz while the 486 was at 100MHz. Pentium was huge, very hot and almost no binsplit to 66MHz. Somehow it turned out to be successful, to say the least.

Have faith.