The Inquirer har historien om den nu droppede efterfølger til "Prescott". Er du en af de mange der undrede dig over hvor Intel pludselig droppede alle deres køreplaner, og begyndte forfra. Så læs denne lille artikel...
Why did it toss out a CPU that by all accounts was weeks away from tapeout, and the insiders said was really all that it should have been? Intel was getting its act together, then out came the knives.
So was it heat? Performance? Ramping? Pentium Ms going to obliterate them? None of the above, it was simply a marketing choice. Intel got its 90 nanometre act together late last year, the problems with Dothan and Prescott have been design, not process ones. Læs artiklen her: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17989