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'Prescott' wants to be in your living room

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edited January 2004 in Science & Tech
Intel looks like the marketing towards its next line of Pentium 4 CPU's will be more focused on selling itself to your living room, rather than your desktop.

[blockquote]Prescott, the code name for an enhanced version of the Pentium 4 coming out on 2 February, will let Intel bridge the gap between the PC and the television by helping computers function more like VCRs than traditional desktops.
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[link=http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/chips/0,39020354,39143727,00.htm]Read more[/link]

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  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    with each generation of software and hardware, we get these promises of new functionality that is supposed to change our lives forever. The computer of today is essentially the same as the computer of 1994. This is all marketing bullcrap these marketing "geniuses" throw around. I'm sick of it. Bring me a holodeck, then I'll be impressed.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Pardon me, but last time I checked video capture is handled by specialized peripherals like TV tuners and DV bridges as well as software that can interpret the signals from either of the above, then master the signals to some sort of digital medium.

    And where exactly does Prescott fit anywhere in this sequence in a better capacity than Northwood, or any other CPU for that matter? I guess encode times are better for higher-speed processors, but if they're lengthening the pipeline like another news post suggested then Northwood will be more capable than Prescott at the same clock speeds for media encoding. All the things zdnet quotes as being brought to the table by Prescott are already on the table, things like computer set-top boxes with full PC performance are already here, and their much touted platform audio and video are very likely to be low-performance as always.

    It will take much longer than a year for PCI Express to be adopted in the mainstream. It only took 5 years to phase ISA out of the mainstream (though it is still in use in industry), and from what I've seen PCI Express isn't going to be backwards-compatible so people with cash invested in PCI are going to get screwed when they upgrade.

    This really is bs.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited January 2004
    kanezfan wrote:
    with each generation of software and hardware, we get these promises of new functionality that is supposed to change our lives forever. The computer of today is essentially the same as the computer of 1994. This is all marketing bullcrap these marketing "geniuses" throw around. I'm sick of it. Bring me a holodeck, then I'll be impressed.

    Yeah, it's like when Intel got slapped on the wrist for advertising its PIII or whatever, when the advert claimed the chip increased the speed of internet surfing. It's not about what it actually does, it's about what they can make you think it does.

    If Intel lived up to all their own hype, their CPU's would in fact contain a DSL modem, a video capture processor and a hardware mpeg2 decoder all powered by diddy men in shiny suits and helmets. :hrm:
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