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Computing: Intel Fights Self-Created Myths | Wednesday, 2004 May 12 - 5:59 pm |
For years, Intel has promoted the idea that faster CPU clock speed equals faster performance. Now the company is having to back away from this myth. I'm tickled. Intel is abandoning its plans to keep increasing its Pentium 4 processor clock speeds as a way of improving performance. Reportedly, the Tejas, Jayhawk, and Potomac processors would not have been able to handle the tremendous heat generated when running at 4 GHz+ speeds. Thus, those programs have been scrapped. Instead, Intel is concentrating on its Dothan (Pentium M) architecture for its future. These are processors with better performance per clock cycle and lower power usage than the P4 line. Currently primarily used on notebooks, Dothan-based processors will eventually make their way into the desktop lineup. The thing is, the maximum CPU clock speed on Pentium M processors is currently 1.7 GHz, or half the speed of its Pentium 4 lineup. So now, Intel is changing its entire processor naming convention to de-emphasize clock speeds, and is attempting to educate the user populace about "overall performance" and such. This is exactly what AMD, Motorola, IBM, and Apple have had to do for years. It's quite gratifying to see Intel get stung by its own misinformation. |
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