This may sound really wrong, and I'm just noodling here and I really don't know, but I betcha Intel marketing does, but most corporations are now running overclocked CeleronAs and overclocked PIIs. They work fine, and are plenty fast on most office applications.
PIIIs are faster and more reliable and certainly provide an upgrade path for any running P1s and for small network servers, are a must unless you spend a 100 bucks for a Linksys router, or 250 for a router/hub combo.
Most of us only have 550Mhz fingers, anyway. But if VPNs are going to be the network paradigm, 1000Mhz processor speed will not be the bottleneck at .5Mbps data transfer rate.
So the P4 starts at 1.4Ghz but has headroom but has much more emphasis on data translation.
My guess is that the "internet terminal" market is about 3 times larger, at the present time on an annual basis than the corporate replacement market, and if the economy tanks, it will be even larger.
Larger server needs are filled by SMP.
Data retrieval, by Xeons, and IA64.
The old IBM RAS, and a little bit of rock and roll for the gamers.
And a little Boom, boom for the doom, doom.
BH, WDIK. |
