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To: Elmer who wrote (122838)	8/22/2000 2:53:41 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577147

Elmer, "Intel shows off 2GHz Pentium 4 " And what software was being run on this chip? Did it exercise the floating point unit? What logic was carefully not being exercised? Intel demoed a "1.5GHz" Willy in February, and are now talking about introducing the chip almost a year later at 1.4GHz. This gives a good feeling for the validity of these cr@p demos. Scumbria

To: Elmer who wrote (122838)	8/22/2000 3:06:05 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1577147

Sure, Elmer. If it could really just run at 2ghz, why did Albert have to demo raising the clock? Could it be that it wouldn't boot cleanly, but could run the CPU meter ok? Nah. Anyway, it looks like this particular dog-and-pony demo lies about midway between the original "specially cooled" gigamine demo of 18 months ago, and your much ballyhooed "boxed and ready to ship by OEMs" gigamines of 6 months ago. So, we'll split the difference, and look for the 2ghz "netburst" a year from now, eh? Paper launch may be considerably sooner, of course. Cheers, Dan