The good news (for INTC shareholders, at least), is that the delays, wishy-washiness about its plans, and the internal politics haven't affected The Firm's ability to move to .13 micron processing, That has gone very well, as we reported here before.
According to a source at Intel in Oregon (which is where Tualatin is, if my memory serves me well), Tualatin processors are the victim of internal politics but Intel is getting good bin splits on chips it has so far produced.
For the desktop, 1.13GHz Tualatins and 1.26GHz Tualatins for that part, were always intended to be temporary processors to tide La Intella over until it was a position to release its Brookdale Pentium 4 parts.
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Under most circumstances, I'd be pretty skeptical about claims like "we FABed a bunch of higher performance chips, but aren't shipping them because we don't feel like it", but in this case, it makes sense. The whole P4 program is on life support at this point, the crash cart has already been called once (introducing the new top end 1.7 part at 1/3 the the usual initial price), and tualatin could kill off P4 completely.
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