Dothan delayed again...

[firtol88]

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2004/02/03&pages=A2&seq=3

Hmmmm, third time's a charm?

 

[preslove]

Intel is shooting themselves in the foot. "The sources speculated that Intel is focusing its relatively limited 90nm capacity on the desktop-use Prescott processors in order to better compete with AMD¡¯s newly launched Athlon 64 3400+ processors for high-end desktop PCs."
That anandtech article shows that the prescott won't improve on northwood until it starts clocking at 3.6 ghz (which isn't schedualed for a while). AAARRRGGHHH, if only AMD made a decent mobile chip.

 

[Frightcrawler]

AMD makes good mobile chips, its just that more laptop manufacturers use intel chips.

 

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[ceo2b]

We know March is generally the time when companies do a facelift to their previous line or introduce new lines. With Dothan delayed until May I can only guess that it will either take longer for co. to institute it once it's available to milk out all sales from new releases with Pentinum M or Intel will halt the chip for a processor more advanced than Dothan. It would in the least surprise me if Dothan never made an entry and Intel just introduced the next line of processors from the roadmap.

Excuse my idiocy but why can't Pentinum M handle 2MB of L2 cache? Was it just not built to support it?

 

[thuned]

Originally posted by: ceo2b
We know March is generally the time when companies do a facelift to their previous line or introduce new lines. With Dothan delayed until May I can only guess that it will either take longer for co. to institute it once it's available to milk out all sales from new releases with Pentinum M or Intel will halt the chip for a processor more advanced than Dothan. It would in the least surprise me if Dothan never made an entry and Intel just introduced the next line of processors from the roadmap.

Excuse my idiocy but why can't Pentinum M handle 2MB of L2 cache? Was it just not built to support it?

Dothan == pentium m with 2mb of cache

 

[UltraWide]

Originally posted by: thuned

Originally posted by: ceo2b
We know March is generally the time when companies do a facelift to their previous line or introduce new lines. With Dothan delayed until May I can only guess that it will either take longer for co. to institute it once it's available to milk out all sales from new releases with Pentinum M or Intel will halt the chip for a processor more advanced than Dothan. It would in the least surprise me if Dothan never made an entry and Intel just introduced the next line of processors from the roadmap.

Excuse my idiocy but why can't Pentinum M handle 2MB of L2 cache? Was it just not built to support it?

Dothan == pentium m with 2mb of cache

 

[LaptopDude]

yeah intel are digging themselves a nice hole. there flagship mobile chip has been the 1.7ghz pentium-m for over 8 months now! 1.7ghz was topz for the pentium-m in clockability so they cant push it any higher to provide a fill in between now and the new dothan architecture.

sorry intel but i dont have any dirt to spare for you to fill in your hole?!

 

[Bbc84]

damn, ive been waiting for the Dothan laptops.

Maybe i should just go with the Emachine AMD 64 processor.

Only thing i dont like about the Emachine is the name...(dont know about their reliablilty)

And that they only have a 64MB ATI 9600 i think it was.

The Intel lappys i was looking at had 128MB.

 

[xcrunner51]

damnit!!!!! i wanted to get one of the new dothan 533mhz fsb's lappies for college next year but it looks like they won't be out until about a year from now

 

[Bbc84]

actually if ur waiting for the laptops for college (Fall 2004) these should be out.

If they release it in say May (3 months from now) itll take about annother 3 months or so for it to really show up on the consumer market right?

Which means itll be right around August/September (right when most colleges resume from summer vacation)

I wanted one so i can do my computer programming this semester.

 

[LaptopDude]

if you really really can't wait...there is absolutely nothing wrong with the current 1.7ghz pentium-m's! In terms of performance for clock speed...nothing beats them! my 1.7ghz easily holds on par with a 2.4c, and gives mr "im so much better with my 2600" a run for his money! (but thats another story!)