What is merced and deschutes?
They are Californis Rivers, but also the next intel chips:
Deschutes - the next edition of PII - will be able to go higher speeds, access more buzzers & bells, use lower power (for great notebooks), and cheaper to make theoretically.
Merced - the 786. Wintel, major archetecture change toward "workstation"-like design to go really fast. Ie. contains double wide hose, more pumps, higher pressure, more parallel hoses. Eg. If you've ever lost grip on a high pressure 2" fire hose you know its a lot wilder than losing a garden hose. Now put a few of those side by side and bootstrap the pumps and some serious hosing can be done - well something like that. But we don't know for sure yet cause its secret till next week.
news.com
Close-out sales on classic Pentium chips, which
were heavily discounted during the summer, also
have helped to depress revenue growth. Unit sales
for the quarter came to approximately 21.7 million,
an 18 percent increase over the June quarter and an
8 percent increase over the March quarter,
according to Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Southcoast
Capital. By revenue, however, microprocessors are
5 percent below estimates, up only 2 percent over
the previous quarter.
Further discounting of the Pentium chip likely will
occur during the fourth quarter, according to Kumar.
"We expect [processor] revenues to grow 10
percent sequentially in the December quarter,
significantly below the 23 percent sequential growth
in the December quarter of last year," he said in a
report.
Meanwhile, poor yields on the K6 processor are
expected to result in a loss of 28 cents a share for
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The company
had planned to produce between 1.2 million and 1.5
million K6 chips, but produced only a million. Much
of the shortfall, moreover, came on the 233-MHz
K6, the company's high-end chip that is supposed to
compete against Intel's main processor line.
Sales up nicely - earnings not up so much - and no loss of mkt share. |
