Techie Guy re..http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-3783641.html?tag=st.ne....<<<<<<
Techie, good find. I think Brookwood sums up the chip better than most.
The Pentium 4 "is not a body blow to AMD by any means," said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64. "The Athlon will be better for productivity applications, which is kind of funny because AMD has yet to establish a base in the commercial market...In the personal productivity applications, the Pentium 4 is showing no benefits over the Pentium III." <<<<
After reading all of the reviews etc. it doesn't seem surprising at all that P4 has some good points. The main problem as I see it is that Intel is making the same mistake Intel made in winter 98 when Intel went after the low end market. Intel is failing once again to defend its home turf. By putting several low cost producers out of business, Intel had to commit a lot of its engineering talents and man. facilities defending the newly won territory, only to lose the top end desktop to Amd. Now we see Intel, with the P4 going after the Internet, and possibly some gaming; while not defending its turf, the commercial market, against AMD, by ignoring SMP , ignoring performance increases in office productivity and server applications. Call me stupid but an army never leaves it capital open to attack, but Intel has done just that by not protecting its home turf again. The P4 is more a niche chip, rather than a balanced chip that can do all of the things it needs do well; in that it only does some things well, not all or even most things well such as the PIII did. And while Intel chases this segment of the market, it seems strangely vulnerable in its main market. Those words uttered by Brookwood may portend a further erosion of Intels commercial market by introducing a chip designed to wow neophytes, and specialized workstation markets; not defend the home turf; the secretaries desktops, not the average workstation, not the low end dual chip server box; and certainly not the IT managers who will see beyond the benchmarks and Netburst advertizing, and ask,"what have you done for me lately." |
