Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

July 30, 2004 - 9:00pm

Intel has confirmed that the faster version of its Pentium 4 chip will not be available by the end of the year as previously promised. The 4GHz P4 will now not become available until Q1, 2005, the fastest current Pentium 4 chip is the 3.6 GHz processor.

Intel has not given the precise reasons behind the delay but has issued the usual statement promising that the delay will end up greatly benefiting the consumer.

This delay is the latest in a series of errors by Intel of blunder-like proportions. This year has been rough on the Santa Clara based company, in February 2004 Intel was accused of introducing a new P4 processor which offered no major improvements in performance.
In May, Intel had to cancel the next-generation Pentium 4 so that it could focus on other, more promising technologies.
In June, a problem in the manufacturing process led the world's largest chip maker to recall a small quantity of chipsets.
In July, it was design problems which caused the company to admit that there would be a delay in the release of the mobile computer chipset, Alviso until 2005.

Strangely enough this series of mistakes has not had a negative effect on sales, with Intel claiming that profits have nearly doubled in the second quarter and that it's on track to set record sales in the current quarter.

Even with its impressive sales figures, Intel is taking note of the problems that have been plaguing the company and CEO, Craig Barrett has sent a rather severe message to senior managers claiming that ...there are many reasons for these (product delays and manufacturing issues), but in the end the reasons don't matter because the result is less-satisfied customers and a less-successful Intel. I believe, as you do, that this is not the Intel we all know and that it is not acceptable.

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Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

yes intel sucks compared to amd.only wish amd would use proper ghz names and not crap like xp3000 which actually runs at something like 2.2ghzalso i think you will need to be 1 rich ass dude to afford one of these new 4ghz p4 when they come out, they dont look cheap atall.ill wait 6 months or so for a price drop b4 i get any new cpu

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

lol a pentium 4 processor which has 4GHZ is not a improvement at all!3.6ghz to 4ghz is SOOOOOO close!if it was 5ghz then it would be a good chip but other then that it's crap but if it was a 64bit 4ghz chip i'd buy it in a flashAMD is certainly leading the wayi always knew intel was all crap!and i dont really think this chip is gonna be really expensive, i'd say it is from $500 to $1000a $1000 bucks is nuffin if you really think about it lol!you spend a $1000 in a week, well i do.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

Anonymousat 22:28 31/7/2004AMD OWNS! WHO ever disagrees with me can DIE!I disagree with you, come kill me Bitch! i have no probs with my 3.4 running at 3.89 ghz stable, 4.12 not as stable it takes a 3400 64bit overclocked to beat it in all of the games i play !

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

I agree, the whole thing that AMD uses like +3800 in the name but it's like 2.8GHZ or something will really confuse you, heck I don't even know how much GHZ is the amd +3800.If amd came out straight forword like 3800ghz, then fine but the way they are doing it now is really f**ked.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

LOL all the fanboys are out to play. AMD have had bad design for ages - puting the cpu core on top of the processor so you can grind it to bits fitting their crap heatsink/fan is rediculous. I biult about 300 PC's and upgraded my own god knows how many times and never broke anything UNTILL the amd Athlon came out and i managed to get 3 that died on me. Crap quality and bad design, between me and 2 other mates we had about 7 or 8 deam AMD's all coz the core cracked or chipped when fiting the heatsink.Intel on the other hand is much better with no heat problems and no broken cores. Forget AMD - untill they improve to Intels reliability im sticking with my P4 and im happy about it.Flame me all you want to but I honestly cant be bothered with all the numbers on benchmarks and framerates over 60 FPS in my games - as long as I can run with the settings maxed out and get 60FPS then all is good. If a 64Bit AMD out-performs my P4 in games then congratulations to all you AMD owners, but I really need convincing that the stability and temperature issues have been resolved before I switch back to AMD again.My retail P4 3.0GHz with the included bog standard heatsink & fan runs about 55 degrees C, compare that to my old Athlon XP2000 that used to run at about 50 degrees with a good heatsink and fan that I brought seperately. That alone says to me that my system is gonna be more stable and my motherboard isnt gonna fry along with the heat generated from my graphics card and ram.Sorry guys - but i just dont trust AMD at the moment coz the reliability isnt there

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

if ppl hadnt noticed AMD beat intel in almost ALL benchmarks not just gaming. my AMD 2800+ out performes my mates 3.2 P4 but then again his comps have alwayz been shit. AMD and intel are so close in every aspect it now relies on price, AMD owns in budget. ohhh and 2 the ppl who so AMD is only better for gamin please never visit this site again because as u said AMD is 4 gamers so intels can go to some other f**kd up site. this is a gaming site for gamin ppl and gamin equipment so if u dont like it u can get out.sorry im a angry person mother f**kers.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

ohh DM, sorry 2 say but u cant build comps, im on my 2000XP and its sittin at a cool 20 degrees celcius and that overclocked to a 2600+ on stock kooling, only been buildin comps for a couple months now and ive never f**kd up the core on a AMD. its ppl like u and my boss who alwayz look back at the bad side of the brands when making a purchase.ohh and the comp im on now has 2 80mm fans and its stays cooler then me mates P4 2.6ghz and his is in a TT Xaser tower wif 7 80mm fans.im sorry to say but if ppl wanna build an AMD system its gotta be done properly and u my friend cant biuld a system properly if u keep crackin cores.as i said to my boss if u want a kahoona PC prepare to put time into it aswell as sweat and blood. my first AMD i built was a 2400+ and it outperformes 2.8 P4.AMD need 2 b built properly and if u dont dont do it at all.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

wtf is up with these pplz who do not understand the amd performance rating system. Its been running fine for ages and any one with half a brain cell could work out what it means.Anonymousat 1:20 1/8/2004I agree, the whole thing that AMD uses like +3800 in the name but it's like 2.8GHZ or something will really confuse you, heck I don't even know how much GHZ is the amd +3800.If amd came out straight forword like 3800ghz, then fine but the way they are doing it now is really f**ked.Well if u had any intellectual matter in that boil on the top of your neck u might remember that the main reason for this, was to to forget the fact of ghz. The main point to prove is that it doesnt matter how fast the chip is going as long as it is equivalent or better than the competion.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

If u had a 1 mhz AMD and a 3.0 ghz intel and the AMD had equal performance wtf would it matter that the chip didnt need the same amount mhz to achieve the same speed as the intel. AMD chips are simple, the name u see is the performance u should get. The mhz is irrelevant. In fact, they could even not bother to tell u what mhz it is running at, because it doesnt matter. As long as it performs like it was designed to do and runs everything u want it to, then that is all that really matters.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

yeah, if they took away the 3000+ etc. and only showed the mhz, I bet you those same dumbasses who didn't like it would start complaining again saying how they gatta look up the benchmarks for every chip just to see how it compaires - most of then would think ooooo more mhz is better! oooo i hate dumbasses

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

'Anonymousat 2:51 1/8/2004ohh DM, sorry 2 say but u cant build comps, im on my 2000XP and its sittin at a cool 20 degrees celcius and that overclocked to a 2600+ on stock kooling'well your temperature sensor is way wrong then m8! or you live in an igloo.and the xp performance rating system is long out of date. it goes right back to when people were still using thunderbird chips where an xp1500 would be considered equal performance to an amd thunderbird 1500. it was never meant to be compared to intel chips.also if intel can get 4.0ghz then why are amd so far behing not even getting 3ghz out of a cpu yet? I know amd have the better performance but think what it would be with an actual 4ghz athlon64, intel would be history :)

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

AMD can actually reach much higher frequencies but they gain more performance from memory and design than clock, which if they raised, would shoot up chip prices.Also my past experience has shown AMD numbering systems to be quiet lenient.Only Intel chip i ever had was a celeron which worked almost the same as a p2 but was shit to overclock.AMD have always rocked, especially for gamers.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

I work for tech support all you please stop freaking overclocking all your hardware when you dont have a clue what your doing!I get daily calls about people who fry their entire system and wonder if it's *workable* then complain that i cant help them. As if the bin is an invalid sergestion all of a sudden.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

him)"Hey i'm having trouble with my graphics card."me)"what kind of trouble?"him)"I tryed to overclock it then it stoped working and there was a foul smelling smoke when i opened the case."me)"Did you turn off and unplug the computer."him)"yeah! Of course i did but i'm just ---- wondering--- if --- there's ---- anyway --- to -- make -- it -- WORKABLE -- (again)."me)*pop*Q)Do you smell smoke coming from the computer?A)Yeah kindaQ)Was there a electrical fire at all

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

Anonymousat 9:9 1/8/2004DM, are you stupid? you think amd has heat problems?! zzzERM...well if you compare a CPU from 18 months ago that ran about 1.6 GHz at 55 degrees, then get a brand new P4 3.0 GHz and its only 5 degrees warmer wouldnt you say that AMD has a bit of an 'issue' with heat??? I read somewhere that AND processors runing at 70 degrees are meant to be acceptable levels of heat! thats just shit, and as for the twat saying his CPU is at 20 degrees he is missinformed or lying, or his CPU is only 200MHzAs for my ability to build PC's - dont doubt it. How can I build 300 PC's and do god-knows-how-many installations of windows operating systems and not know how to build a pc??? It takes 30 minutes to build a pc from getting all the components out of the boxes to doing a first boot to set up the BIOS, and thats if you take your time.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

Anonymousat 2:51 1/8/2004ohh DM, sorry 2 say but u cant build comps, im on my 2000XP and its sittin at a cool 20 degrees celcius and that overclocked to a 2600+ on stock kooling, only been buildin comps for a couple months now and ive never f**kd up the core on a AMD. its ppl like u and my boss who alwayz look back at the bad side of the brands when making a purchase.Are you looking at your case temp maybe you fool? as for the bad side of brands i would say that in all the 10 years I have been using, selling, upgrading and repairing PC's the only dead CPU's I have ever seen have ALL been AMD, I think that speaks for itself.Go and cry

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

Anonymousat 9:9 1/8/2004DM, are you stupid? you think amd has heat problems?! zzzDM i was talking about Graphics cards how about you read the post before you type, stupid troll. Thats what i get for giving advice it's creative morons like you who dont think twice before they do something that keeps me in a job.

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

Default fan and heatsink for the amd 64 3200XP runs at 20 degrees.AMD chips are are set at lower clock speeds but perform faster than Intels hence why they call the 2200 MHz a 3200+And it's MHz not GHz... shit if it was 3 terra-hertz i'd be able to watch doom 3 run at 50-60 fps!!!!

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

AMD has been gamers choice because of the great performance and the cheap price. But Intel is faster, game benchmarks has proven so. The only procesors from AMD proven to be worthy or can be called better is their new 64 BIT CPU's, but of course they went from being cheap to way too expensive. I refuse to pay so much money for a CPU!

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

DMat 2:42 1/8/2004LOL all the fanboys are out to play. AMD have had bad design for ages - puting the cpu core on top of the processor so you can grind it to bits fitting their crap heatsink/fan is rediculous. I biult about 300 PC's and upgraded my own god knows how many times and never broke anything UNTILL the amd Athlon came out and i managed to get 3 that died on me. Crap quality and bad design, between me and 2 other mates we had about 7 or 8 deam AMD's all coz the core cracked or chipped when fiting the heatsink.DM i was talking about Graphics cards how about you read the post before you type, stupid troll. Thats what i get for giving advice it's creative morons like you who dont think twice before they do something that keeps me in a job.u read his post fag and u will c that he says CPU, 2 all the ppl who think im liein bout my 2000+ i read the temp off the bios and asus PCprobe.the reason AMD is almost and/or is faster than intel is this, they have a thing called quantabursting, wanna know what it does?? similar to the intekl HT but sends 4 cycles of info for the individual app instead of intel sendin 2 cycles of info for 2 apps.this is my experiancee with AMD and as i said, when u build a AMD its gotta be done properly, ne1 remeber the 2.2 P4? it was beat by the 2000+ AMD, heck when the P4 first came out it was slower then the P3. when i read the temps of the CPU i go off the bios. iv never crackd a core on either CPU and have never had heatin probs in either of my systems. go on flame me, but im now buildin a 3200+ for a mate and i can garuntee it wont overheat due to i know how amds need to be cooled. it wasnt a case temp it was a CPU temp.ohh and the 64bit CPUs r like AUS$10 more then the intel version and even the fastest AMD the fx-53 is cheaper then the 3.4EE P4 so there still cheaper

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

Anonymousat 21:29 1/8/2004DMat 2:42 1/8/2004LOL all the fanboys are out to play. AMD have had bad design for ages - puting the cpu core on top of the processor so you can grind it to bits fitting their crap heatsink/fan is rediculous. I biult about 300 PC's and upgraded my own god knows how many times and never broke anything UNTILL the amd Athlon came out and i managed to get 3 that died on me. Crap quality and bad design, between me and 2 other mates we had about 7 or 8 deam AMD's all coz the core cracked or chipped when fiting the heatsink.DM i was talking about Graphics cards how about you read the post before you type, stupid troll. Thats what i get for giving advice it's creative morons like you who dont think twice before they do something that keeps me in a job.sorry bout that i need to read the posts, sorry again my bad

Intel Delays 4GHz Pentium 4

I've seen a AMD 1.2 gig motherboard fry(bad fan) that just doesnt happen with intel inside. Infact none of my Intel-inside computers have ever overheated, broke down or anything due to hardware problems. Intel is around to stay.

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