To: milo_morai who wrote (103734 ) 10/27/2003 6:35:38 AM From: Rink Respond to INQ: Japanese article says Prescott delayed till Q2: The Japanese article says systems won't work with 800MHz front side buses, while Intel is frantically attempting to create fresh packaging and a further stepping – C1 – for the chip.That means that if Intel makes its own February deadline, volume is unlikely to appear until the second quarter of next year. And Intel's most recent roadmaps suggested that it would start using the LGA775 design for Prescott in Q2 as well, which is when its "Grantsdale" chipsets are supposed to appear. inquirerinside.com Intel dropped the prices of the P4/3.2 from $637 to $417, a gesture usually accompanied by a new processor introduction. When Intel does this without a new slice of silicon, it is not a gesture of goodwill , or an indication that the trucks that vacuum the wads of cash out of the Intel vaults are late this week, it the price hammer. If Intel had the lead in mindshare or raw speed, which it pretty much always has had, AMD has to respond. It always did like good little followers. Ref: inquirerinside.com Veritas will support SuSE's product line in stages , Nevatia said. First will come support for the version for "x86" processors, such as Intel's Xeon or Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon. Later will come support for SuSE Linux running on Intel's Itanium and IBM's zSeries mainframes.
