Intel Clawing Back

November 14, 2000 5:55 AM

Well, the party couldnt last forever. It looks like AMD has had to delay the release of their 1.5GHz Athlon chip and things arent going perfect anymore for them, this just a few days after completely canning their Mustang chip. You couple that with the point that Intel looks to be 'way ahead of schedule' with their Pentium4 chip and Intel is gonna finally take the lead again.

AMD also bumped back its schedule for desktop chips. A 1.5-GHz version of Athlon for desktops won't hit the market until mid-2001, rather than in the first quarter, as originally expected. At that time, rival Intel will be preparing a 2-GHz version of the Pentium 4.

2GHz P4s in 2 months? Yeesh.. and its not just Register saying this anymore.. :)

Steve Gibson

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November 14, 2000 5:57 AM

oh dear. why did I bother.
Anyway, Go Intel! As much as I like AMD (they power my PC now), I'd like Intel to continue to be strong. I personally have nothing against them.