Month: July 2004

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Will You Please Stop Sucking?

July 31, 2004 admin 0

For all intents and purposes, that’s what an email sent by Intel’s CEO Craig Barrett to Intel employees said. I wonder if he sent a copy to himself. He should have (along with the rest of his executive officers). The

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No Intel 4.0 Soon

July 31, 2004 admin 0

The Non-Event For Them Intel announced that it will delay the 4GHz Prescott until Q1 2005. It’s pretty clear why; they just can’t make enough (or at least enough that will run cool enough for an OEM box) to guarantee

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Cleaning Up

July 29, 2004 admin 0

Like any other lived-in (or in this case virtually-lived in) place, websites tend to accumulate junk over the course of time, abandoned articles, files that used to be used but are no longer, things like that. However, there are certain

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A Quick Hammer Poll: The Results

July 29, 2004 admin 0

Here’s the results from the poll we took a little while ago. Scenario 1: 90nm Athlon64 Hammers start off at $500 and drop to around $270 by next July. By then, the cheapest socket 939 130nm Hammer is about $160;

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Total Recall

July 29, 2004 admin 0

XBit Labs says that ECS mentioned on its website that a socket 939, Athlon 64 with 1Mb cache is supposed to show up, and sure enough, it does. The most probable reason for this is that there’s a pricing hole

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Another Tea Leaf

July 27, 2004 admin 0

Someone sent me this graph, which apparently comes from this website: (Normally, I would link directly to the file, but this website is in Chinese, and I haven’t been able to find it on the site itself. I’ll be glad

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Intel Plus Ten

July 27, 2004 admin 0

We’ve explained numerous times in the past that AMD has been following a pricing parity policy (i.e. charging the same amount as Intel does for equivalently rated processors) with desktop Hammers. Perhaps this policy made AMD look a little too