L33tdawg: Yeah right... AMD has been consistently whipping Intel's ass.
THE DAY of Intel's earning results, CEO Craig Barrett delivered an up-beat report to all the firm's employees, via a Webcast and through its internal organ Circuit News.
Barrett told the staff that Intel has a "plan and product roadmaps" which will allow the company to be successful despite "several highly publicised setbacks" in the recent months.
Intel is dumping plans to release a Pentium 4 processor that runs at 4GHz, saying it will boost performance on next year's chips using other means than clock speed.
The chip company said it plans to brief PC manufacturers this week on the latest changes to its processor road map. The main change is that the 4GHz Pentium 4 -- scheduled for release early next year and originally due out at the end of 2004 -- won't come out at all now.
Intel Corp., the world’s leading maker of microprocessors, chipsets and network components, Monday said it had been shipping central processing units with security capability called XD-bit for some time, while a number of retailers began to supply the chips to end-users.
“All the [microprocessor] parts with the “-J” designator have XD bit and have been shipping for several weeks now,” an Intel’s spokesman told X-bit labs.
Intel has snuffed out a plan to provide consumer desktop PCs with built-in Wi-Fi access points--the latest wrinkle for the chipmaker, which has faced a number of product setbacks this year.
Intel had planned to deliver its Intel Wireless Connect product--a bundle consisting of a special memory controller hub chip for its Intel Express 915 chipset, a Wi-Fi card and setup software--to PC makers during the fourth quarter. Intel had hoped that Wireless Connect would help popularize Wi-Fi networks, as the bundle would let a PC serve as a wireless networking hub for the home.
OUR FRIENDS at THGdiscovered that you can test current 550 and 560 CPU's and make them run at 1066 FSB already.
A new Asus NIOS will let you overclock two of the latest Asus motherboards, the P5AD2 (i925) and the P5GD2 (i915P).
This magic BIOS will let you overclock the multiplier, something that you could not do in the past and you can get your 3.6GHZ CPU and overclock it from its original 18x200 MHz to FSB 1066 MHz x 14 resulting in 3728MHz or should we say 3733MHz.
"Are we meeting the specific goals this year? Not to the aggressive levels we've set," Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, said while answering questions after a speech at the Intel Developer Forum here. Intel once positioned Itanium as the chip that would become as dominant in the server market as the Pentium is among personal computers.
High-tech bellwether Intel Corp. has lowered its financial projections for the third quarter, providing the latest sign of the U.S. economy's doldrums.
The computer chip giant said Thursday its third-quarter revenue will range from $8.3 billion to $8.6 billion. Management previously forecast revenue ranging from $8.6 billion to $9.2 billion for the three-month period ending September 25.
The mean revenue estimate among industry analysts had been $8.9 billion, according to Thomson First Call.
Intel on Sunday dropped prices on a range of Pentium 4 processors, some by more than a third.
The fastest version of the chip, the 3.6GHz Pentium 4 560, dropped by 35 percent from $637 to $417. The 3.4GHz Pentium 4 550 slipped by 33 percent from $417 to $278.
The 3.2GHz Pentium 4 540 dipped 22 percent from $278 to $218. The 3GHz Pentium 4 530 is down 18 percent, from $218 to $178.
Intel's prices reflect chips purchased in 1,000-unit lots by PC makers. Thus street prices for individual chips purchased by consumers vary and are often higher.
Semiconductor giant Intel Corp. said it won't be offering a chip for projection television sets by the end of 2004 as it had announced earlier this year.
The California-based chip maker said Monday it still plans to introduce a liquid crystal on silicon chip, or LCoS, but company spokeswoman Laura Anderson declined to provide a specific timeline.
"Basically, we're evolving our product development plans," she said, adding the company wants to more clearly differentiate its product from competing technologies and provide a clearer television picture.
Customers wanting speeds in the 4GHz range must wait at least another quarter, Intel warned system makers. This delay is just the latest in a string of stalled plans for the company.
