The 1 Gig PIII IS shipping in good quantities.
A much more interesting question is why you are incapable of understanding this.
As far as I know, no one, AMDroid or otherwise, has found actual numbers for the quantity of Intel or AMD GHz systems shipped. I am not beating this dead horse, but asking another question.
On the dell web page, workstation speeds are only listed up to 933MHz.
dell.com
Furthermore, no GHz systems ship without rambus included, 933 is the max for sdram systems.
dell.com
This is despite the overwhelmingly negative response that business users have given to the current slew of Rambus offerings. I base this opinion of rambus penetration on one- a slew of anecdotal reports to that effect in the tech press (cnet and zdnet, not ragister), and two- that neither Rambus, Dell, nor Intel has stated otherwise. (As opposed to the how many times that the recent 815 chipset received kudos for its acceptance?)
So we have the situation that 1GHz chips are not offered to workstation users, and not to non-rambus users.
Thus my claim that 1GHz P3's are not ready for prime time. I want to know why this is. If the "c" stepping is just a few weeks away, my observations are just white noise. If the "c" stepping is already here but failed to binsplit as hyped, then it's news. |
