Scumbria,
RE:"When Intel says "about a month", it is usually an indication of trouble. That was their exact words for fixing the 1.13GHz problem, and almost every other issue which has popped up in the last two years."
Well, after a little jockeying on the mod thread where I was educated a bit, it was determined that P4 (by consensus) was first Silicon in January. OK, just for arguments sake lets say that was true. A November launch (supposedly would be less except for i850) means the new design was tested, verified, poked, prodded, re-taped, masked out a few times, whatever, in about 10 months. Pretty darn quick if you ask you.
Paul makes snide remarks that it would be a miracle if the P4 progresses without a hitch and now Tony tells us the danger of implementing high speed cache designs.
10 months ago you stated the P4 was too "wiz-bang" and likely to be no big deal (or words to that effect).
So I'm a little worried...about "the no big deal" part. Sounds like P4 will be a big deal one way or another and I don't like what I'm hearing from process specialists...
So are you saying don't be surprised at either a delay or worse yet, a few bugs?
Jim |
