16th December 2000 Archive

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Pentium 4 castrated to keep costs down

Chip as launched a mere shadow of its former self

Not even Intel could afford to build Willamette aka Pentium 4 as it was originally designed, admitted a senior Intel engineer yesterday. Darrell Boggs, Intel's principal engineer for the desktop platform group, told delegates at the Micro-33 conference in Monterey that the original P4 design would have been too large to build …

Channel 16 Dec 2000, 09:15
AMD denies limiting mobile Duron family

Ruckus in Far East overplayed

AMD has denied that it is restricting access to socket and chip technology for its family of mobile Durons, and has claimed it is still on target for product introductions in the first quarter of next year. Sources close to Asian notebook firms had claimed that AMD had restricted designs using the mobile Duron to four big ODMs …

Channel 16 Dec 2000, 11:05
Celeron 800 tips up in Japan

Akiba first again

Japan's Akiba Hotline is advertising the new 800MHz Celeron, the first Celery to sport a 100MHz front side bus. The part isn't scheduled for launch until January, but Akiba has a tradition of being the first store on the block with new processors. Intel famously doesn't comment on unannounced products, but OC Workbench has a …

Channel 16 Dec 2000, 12:23
Intel to slash P4 prices 28 Jan

Roadmap Plus ca change...c'est si bon

The latest roadmap Intel has showed its customers reveals that it will take the axe to prices of its 1.4 and 1.5 Pentium 4s on 28 January 2001. At the same time it will release the 1.3GHz Pentium 4 at a price of $409, and cut the price of its 1GHz Pentium III from $465 to $348. The 1.5 P4 will cost $644, and the 1.4 P4 will …

Channel 16 Dec 2000, 19:12