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Originally Posted by keithwalton It does to me look like intel is going to make it 3 years in a row with major product releases around easter time (P4 C and canterwood two years ago, prescott and 900 series last year etc) |
April is the time of year CPU's should come out, because of trade shows, while september is the time for GPU's...because of tradeshows. At least it seems to work that way most times.
AMD had dualcore samples @ CES, actually about 4 times as many as Intel, so i think the Inquirer guys are just going on that to base thier opinion. And you can tell the ones who are AMD fans are gamers...have Intel move the memory controller on the CPU die, and thier opinions will change, methinks.
Future revisions of the Dothan look most promising...and lower power than the Smithfeild, too!
AMD apparantly has the Geode running in dual...making for an even better core than a dual, possibly, as power consumption is super-low, even @ 2ghz....check out the pic pulled from AKIBA...NX1750@14W x2
EDIT: Also found some pricing on anandtech for P4 dualcores, and they seem to be pretty close when it comes to MSRP's:
Intel Dual Core PerformanceDesktop Lineup LGA775
Processor/Speed/L2 Cache/FSB/Launch
Pentium 4 840/3.20GHz/2x1MB/800MHz/Q2'05 $530
Pentium 4 830/3.00GHz/2x1MB/800MHz/Q2'05 $316
Pentium 4 820/2.80GHz/2x1MB/800MHz/Q2'05 $241