Shipments of the 3GHz 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) Pentium 4 processors are expected to resume next week at the earliest, Kelly Wu, country manager of Intel Taiwan, said at the April 15 press conference for the launch of the company?s 875P (Canterwood) chipset and 800MHz FSB-based P4 processor.
Intel on April 14 released its new-generation 800MHz FSB-based P4s and 875P chipsets, but later said that it would delay the processor shipments due to a problem found during the testing process.
Wu said that she was notified by Intel?s headquarters about the postponement, but was not informed of the nature of the problem. She stressed that with shipments expected to return to normal next week at the earliest, the impact should be limited. As for the 875P chipset and forthcoming 865 (Springdale) series chipsets, the shipment schedule has not changed, Wu noted.
Downstream channel vendors also believe the delayed processor shipments will not affect sales of new 875P motherboards much, as the products are aimed at the top-end market with their higher prices and specifications and the market is currently in the traditional low season.
Designed to support Intel?s P4 processor with Hyper-Threading Technology, the 875P also supports dual-channel DDR400 memory. Other features of the 875P include an AGP 8x graphics interface, integrated USB 2.0, Serial ATA (SATA) and dual independent DMA audio engines. The 875P offers built-in RAID capabilities utilizing the latest SATA interface for accelerated disk I/O. Error Correction Code is supported for users who demand memory data reliability and integrity. The 875P is priced at US$53 with integrated software RAID and US$50 without RAID.
The new 3GHz P4 supports Hyper-Threading Technology and an 800MHz system bus. Intel claimed that the 800MHz bus can transmit information within the PC up to 50% faster than the earlier 533MHz version.
Source : DigiTimes
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