Pravin, the CNet "170" article is from back in June. Kanellos article from today is the "217"
You might want to apologize to Ian...CNet appears to have done nothing wrong... in early June they were guided by analysts to believe it was 170 (which even Kumar thought was too big). Today's IDF sources put the size at a whopping 217. Kanellos dutifully reported it.
Doug
p.s. Note the "Intel will not confirm the size" line from Kanellos' updated article. LOL! You can bet they would confirm it was smaller than 217 if they could!
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Intel chip will be bigger, more expensive to make
By Ian Fried
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
June 2, 2000, 11:45 a.m. PT
Intel's upcoming Willamette processor eventually will reach speeds beyond 2 GHz, but the size of the chip is raising questions about how much it will cost to make.
Willamette, Intel's next-generation desktop processor expected to emerge later this year, will debut at 170 square millimeters, according to estimates from analysts. At that size, it will be 60 percent larger than today's Pentium III. While the larger size will allow Intel to pack more transistors onto the chip and add more features, it also means fewer chips can be produced out of a single wafer, which raises Intel's costs.
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Intel super-sizes Pentium 4 chip
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 22, 2000, 12:20 p.m. PT
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Intel's upcoming Pentium 4 will be more than twice as big as the Pentium III and approximately 28 percent bigger than anticipated, an increase that will boost Intel's manufacturing cost and limit the number of chips produced.
The Pentium 4 will measure 217 square millimeters, according to several sources at the Intel Developer Forum, which began today in San Jose, Calif. The current Pentium III and Celeron chips, by contrast, take up about 100 square millimeters.
Analysts earlier predicted the chip would measure 170 square millimeters. Intel representatives would not confirm the size of the new chip. |
