>IanBruce: Barry has a point. Reread what you said you said!
>>>Barry: They have used cooling to show where we will be for
>>>production parts within an intermediate time frame.
>>Me: Which just confirms what I said: "...they've used a special
>>cooling systems to enable the processor to run faster (700MHz)
>>than it ever would under real-world conditions..."
>I refer to the word EVER in the above statement. Intel has
>already shown that they do supply production parts that run
>like previous demos that were run under extraordinary cooling.
>Barry and I, and many others, expect they are once again showing
>technology that will be routine in a matter of time.
DMF,
I reread the post, and I see your confusion. The use of the word EVER in my original post referred to the specific processor being used in the actual demo, not to any future commercial variant. I was suggesting that if you turned off the flow of coolant keeping this over-clocked chip alive, it would have melted down in a matter of seconds. That science project differed entirely from last week's Apple/IBM "real-world" demo of the 400MHz G4 which was housed in a standard Macintosh tower.
You also wrote:
>Intel has a history of performing and producing. Intel also has a
>history of giving good information to the industry. That leads to
>trust and that makes investors more comfortable with the risks they
>assume when purchasing INTC.
A little history...
From ZDNet:
--Intel fumbled its MMX rollout, says Linley Gwennap of the
influential Microprocessor Report. Instead of executing a smooth
shift-instead of allowing demand for non-MMX processors to decline
steadily during the transition-it marketed the MMX before it could
meet the demand. (It even ran an MMX ad during the Super Bowl, for
heaven's sake.)
--As a result, it instantly arrested interest in non-MMX machines.
Nobody wanted to buy "obsolete" technology. At the same time,
consumers rejected the few available MMX machines because they were
so expensive. Instead, they opted to wait for prices to come down.
In the end, Intel snuffed out demand for its wares across the board,
both MMX and non-MMX.--
From Time Magazine:
--Word of the flaw in intel's Pentium chip, the powerful new brain
in 4 million personal computers sold this year, began circulating
before Thanksgiving. But the manufacturing problem was nothing
compared with the flaw in Intel's understanding of how to keep good
customer relations. Having KEPT THE DEFECT SECRET FOR MONTHS,
Intel blithely dismissed the criticism...--
You continue:
>It also makes consumers quite comfortable when purchasing
>Intel Inside.
From Time Magazine:
--But to Robert Sombric, the data-processing manager for the
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, government, INTEL'S DECISION TO GO ON
SELLING THE FLAWED CHIPS FOR MONTHS WAS INEXCUSABLE. Said he:
"I treat the city's money just as if it were my own. And I'm telling
you: I wouldn't buy one of these things right now, until we really
know the truth about it." Repairing Pentium's flaw may be much
easier than fixing the damage done to Intel's image.--
From PCMagazine:
--Intel has settled a class action suit brought in the wake of the
disclosure last year that an error in testing led the company to
overstate the speed of its Pentium microprocessors...--
Ian Bruce
New York, NY |
