Report: Celeron chip behind rivals news.com
Another off topic dead horse I can't stop beating.
"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 MHz, its performance running software applications is slower than the performance of rival chips developed by Advanced Micro Devices and National Semiconductor unit Cyrix.
"The thing is pretty slow," Snyder said. "There is no doubt in my mind that...why it's slow is because of the lack of secondary cache. Take away the secondary cache and you get a big hit to performance." . . .
"Nevertheless, PC vendors privately express little enthusiasm over the new chip's performance," PC World said.
PC World wrote that Celeron fails to live up to its name, which comes from the Latin word "celer," meaning speed.
But, everybody's going to build machines with this one, because the market demands it, right Reggie?
The market guides the box makers construction of PC's. If the celeron is prived at 10% above the K6, or at parity, who do you think the market is going to choose. Pentium is a household word, K6 is a pair of alphanumeric symbols. As I have said before, the tech business is more than production and engineering.
Yeah, people will pay more for an Intel-inside Celeriac machine with sucky performance, because that's what the market demands. A proprietary lock is a necessity in business, you know, so those box makers will just have to step in line. Intel and the proprietary lock will rule the sub-$1k computer, because... well, because Reggie says so. The press here is just off selling advertising again.
Related story: Intel challenged in low-cost arena news.com
Further, these companies will give computer vendors greater autonomy by making them less dependent on Intel. "PC makers do not want Intel to have the degree of control over their business that Intel has today," Slater added.
Nah, Slater's obviously another technoweenie commie. PC makers want to be kicked around by Intel, they enjoy being kicked around by Microsoft so much they want to double their pleasure. Competition sucks in business, the proprietary lock rules.
Cheers, Dan. |
