Remember that debate going on here about four months ago? Someone was ragging on AMD chips compared with Intel's? Well check this out:
New Intel chip for cheap PCs trails rivals-report
SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 (Reuters) - A new, much-anticipated chip developed by Intel Corp. (INTC - news) aimed at the sub-$1,000 PC market is not as fast running applications as its clone competitors, according to tests performed by computer magazine PC World.
The chip, called Celeron, is expected to be launched on April 15, but PC World said it obtained a pre-production personal computer with a Celeron chip running at a speed of 266 megahertz.
''PC World completed the first road tests of the processor, which indicate that Intel's rivals are still ahead in both price and performance,'' PC World said in a statement.
Bill Snyder, senior news editor at PC World, said that while the chip runs at its expected speed of 266 megahertz, its performance running software applications is slower than the performance of rival chips developed by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD - news) and National Semiconductor Corp. (NSM - news) unit Cyrix Corp. |
