Intel decides to kill speed
p2pnet.net News:- Intel has decided to kill speed.
After a quarter of a century of fast to faster, Chipzilla is abandoning plans for boosting its flagship product from 3.8 to 4 gigahertz.
It started out in 1979 with the famous 8088 chip at five mhz.
Intel’s unexpected move also, “adds to a string of product changes, cancellations and recalls that has roiled the world’s largest chip maker this year,” says Reuters, going on:
“Both Intel and its arch-rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc, have shifted their focus from increasing clock speed – a measure of how fast a chip can crunch numbers – to a less quantitative goal of performance encompassing multi-tasking, security, and multimedia.
“Intel will shift engineers and other resources to its dual-core project, which envisions chips that have the power of two microprocessors in a single package, spokesman Chuck Mulloy said. Intel has plans to sell dual-core chips for mobile, desktop and server computers next year.”
Although Intel didn’t give specific reasons for the decision, speculation among analysts was the chip demanded too much power and created too much heat to be feasible in current PCs, says EcommerceTimes, quoting Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds as saying Intel and other chipmakers pushed so-called clock-speeds as a measure of chip advancements but are now eager to have all aspects of a processor’s performance taken into account.
“The company has seen profits fall and inventories rise in recent quarters amid a slowdown in demand, has canceled some chips and recalled others,” says the report. “It is also preparing for the ever-precarious process of handing power to a new CEO when Craig Barrett retires next year, and it has seen top rival AMD (NYSE: AMD) make some inroads in recent quarters.”
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See:-
kill speed – Intel Cancels Top-Speed Pentium 4 Chip, October 15, 2994
too much heat – Intel Puts 4 GHz Processor on Back Burner, EcommerceTimes, October 15, 2004
October 16th, 2004 at 4:16 am
Very good… since apple has always focused on that apple will likely catch up to and surpass intel and amd’s clock speed gap.