CPU/Mobo Smithfield = Rush Job

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Intel Corp.’s first dual-core chip was a hastily concocted design that was rushed out the door in hopes of beating rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) to the punch, an Intel engineer told attendees at the Hot Chips conference Tuesday.

With the realization that its single-core processors had hit a wall, Intel engineers plunged headlong into designing the Smithfield dual-core chip in 2004 but faced numerous challenges in getting that chip to market, said Jonathan Douglas, a principal engineer in Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, which makes chips for office desktops and servers.

“We faced many challenges from taking a design team focused on making the highest performing processors possible to one focused on multicore designs,†Douglas said in a presentation on Intel’s Pentium D 800 series desktop chips and the forthcoming Paxville server chip, both of which are based on the Smithfield core.
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anishcool said:
OMG ! Poor Intel, their problems continue...

AMD still rocks though !
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the AMD X2 3800+'s (and I believe some other models) are having some EXTREME problems due to slight differences in the clocks (like .0001)
It's causing the games to run super-speed, or not boot at all.
Check out the AMD forums.

Yes, AMD does rock.
However, mind you, Intel did at a time, and they can make a comeback with the right architecture. (www.theinquirer.net.. go read it :P)
 
Intel is a great company with some great designs. But Intel has drowned in its own greed, which has been made apparent with the Prescott. It unfortunately assumed that the masses would lap up whatever was dished out at them.

But don't blame the poor architects there who work on designs years before we actually get to see them. Blame the marketing executives who run the company, who're interested in the company making money rather than anything else. Can you imagine the ideas in that company that have been scrapped because they wouldn't sell?

And blame the people; we allow ourselves to be fed marketing hype without asking any questions.

"Clockspeeds excite you, yes? Well then EAT clockspeeds because that's all you're going to get now" I bet that was the off-the-record quote of any Intel marketing official when they released the Pentium 4.
 
Well your talking as if I'm a n00B (no offence meant)...

I know Intel once rocked I owned 3 Intel rigs before I owned 2 AMD ones :P

And yeah, I do read the Inquirer, why don't you check this out ;)
 
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