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$925?? Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
$925?? Ouch. Deep pockets are required for the recently announced 3.2GHz part with 2MB of on-die L3 cache. That is ALOT of $$$...
[blockquote]The chip giant plans to offer regular Pentium 4 chips with 1MB of cache to expand the number of high-end desktop parts it offers before the arrival of 'Prescott', its next-generation P4 chip.
The Extreme Edition, designed to compete with AMD's Athlon 64 FX-51, is due to ship early next month, DigiTimes reports. Its price is almost $300 more than the typical $637 entry point of top-of-the-range Intel desktop CPU introductions. Prices are per processor when sold in batches of 1000.
With all that L3 cache, the chip's die size is significantly larger than that of the regular P4, so yields are likely to be lower, not only because Intel can punch out fewer per wafer but the bigger the die, the more likely it is to have imperfections that prevent it running at the desired clock speed, or not at all.
Such imperfections may explain for the release of 1MB cache 2.8, 3 and 3.2GHz P4s. If a given chip won't run at 3.2GHz, Intel will try it at a lower clock speed and offer it at that frequency. [/blockquote]
<b>Source:</b> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/33332.html" target="_new">The Register</a>
[blockquote]The chip giant plans to offer regular Pentium 4 chips with 1MB of cache to expand the number of high-end desktop parts it offers before the arrival of 'Prescott', its next-generation P4 chip.
The Extreme Edition, designed to compete with AMD's Athlon 64 FX-51, is due to ship early next month, DigiTimes reports. Its price is almost $300 more than the typical $637 entry point of top-of-the-range Intel desktop CPU introductions. Prices are per processor when sold in batches of 1000.
With all that L3 cache, the chip's die size is significantly larger than that of the regular P4, so yields are likely to be lower, not only because Intel can punch out fewer per wafer but the bigger the die, the more likely it is to have imperfections that prevent it running at the desired clock speed, or not at all.
Such imperfections may explain for the release of 1MB cache 2.8, 3 and 3.2GHz P4s. If a given chip won't run at 3.2GHz, Intel will try it at a lower clock speed and offer it at that frequency. [/blockquote]
<b>Source:</b> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/33332.html" target="_new">The Register</a>
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NS
Right, so now the pricepoint for a P4 laptop just increased ~$700. Not to mention the fact that more cache = more power used = shorter battery life.
NS
Increased cache also means increased heat.
Simply put, Intel assumes enough people will pay $925 for that sucker. Intel would rather have high margins and lower sales than lower margins and more sales.
I wish AMD could figure out a way to do this. Of course, it wouldn't exactly make us privateer/DYers happy, but it would help AMD's bottom line.
man, forget intel!!