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Intel's Fastest-Ever Chip

   From today's issue of E-commerce Minute 14-Nov-02 Puru Subedi
     I think this will pick up market after c 14-Nov-02 protean


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Puru Subedi Posted on 14-Nov-02 12:13 PM

From today's issue of E-commerce Minute
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Intel Releases Fastest-Ever Chip
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Intel has released a new Pentium 4 processor, pushing PC chip speeds to new limits and bringing the Hyper-Threading (HT) technology it unveiled last year to desktop machines for the first time. The company claims HT can boost a PC's performance by up to 25 percent...

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protean Posted on 14-Nov-02 12:29 PM

I think this will pick up market after couple of years.

It is a strategy to get into server,router SPACE for the future, which mostly used to be and still is Sun based. Market Penetration I SAY.

Intel people are a smart kind and they don't just develop a product without being able to
reap some benefits out of it.

I think the application is geared more towards the small business and commercial market rather than for home PCs.

Anyway this is a testament to Moore's law (one of the cofounders of Intel) that the chip processing power doubles every 18 months or so.