Intel delays new Pentium 4 chip due to possible "glitch"

[NFS4]

http://news.com.com/2100-1006-996611.html?tag=fd_top

Looks like Wingznut has been falling down on the job

 

[sharkeeper]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Ouch!

-DAK-

 

[fkloster]

Jesus....

 

[Remedy]

Wingz, you're fired!

 

[DOOPYLOOPY]

Dang they better not be delayed too long thx.

 

[Thor86]

Nothing new with Intel whenever it comes to their latest/cutting edge cpus.

 

[Pariah]

This is good news. Intel should be commended for not trying to cover up possible glitches and taking the necessary steps to get it right. Hopefully they learned something from the 1.1 GHz PIII debacle. It's not like Intel is under any pressure from AMD, who has keeled over and played dead recently, to rush the release out.

 

[ChefJoe]

As long as it is out before Springdale, I'm happy.

 

[BlvdKing]

I wonder what the glitch is?

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: Pariah
This is good news. Intel should be commended for not trying to cover up possible glitches and taking the necessary steps to get it right. Hopefully they learned something from the 1.1 GHz PIII debacle. It's not like Intel is under any pressure from AMD, who has keeled over and played dead recently, to rush the release out.

Yeah It's much better they found the problem before they released it. You wouldn't want a recall on the chips.

 

[Lord Evermore]

"But the 875P will also be known for what it does not include. The chipset is Intel's first product in about six months for high-end PCs that does not include Rambus RDRAM."

I love the way CNET and others dumb things down. It's also Intel's ONLY chipset in about six months. They haven't made a new RDRAM chipset in nearly a year, and that was only a slight refresh of the previous one. Are they just behind the times and don't realize that Intel's relationship with Rambus has been a dead duck for that long already?

" Another feature specific to the 875P is called Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT), which increases the speed at which data moves between the processor and memory."

Oooh, what wonderfully specific information. I'm going to start saying I use PAT in my car, because I use 93 octane gas instead of 87.

"RAID also can be used as a safety net to back up data."

Sure, just not with the 875P which only supports RAID 0.

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore


Sure, just not with the 875P which only supports RAID 0.

i'm pretty sure anand's article says that it will support RAID 1 shortly with a software update. could be wrong though.. i'll go look again.

EDIT:

The feature set of ICH5R is identical to that of ICH5 but with one exception, RAID 0 support. The ICH5R also has RAID 1 support but that will require a driver/BIOS update in order to enable the support; we're expecting the update within the next month or so.

 

[jaeger66]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore


Sure, just not with the 875P which only supports RAID 0.

RAID 1 will be implemented shortly.

 

[Macro2]

I wonder how many chips they had to deep six.

 

[ElFenix]

i thought it was intel's first chipset for "high end" pcs that didn't use rambus in about 3 years

 

[bluemax]

Good time for dumpster-divers near Intel fabs...

 

[Lord Evermore]

Intel's own pages still only mention RAID0. I'm not going to assume that CNET knows about the possibility of a future BIOS update, I'm going to assume that they just saw "RAID" and ran with the assumption it did both.

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Intel's own pages still only mention RAID0. I'm not going to assume that CNET knows about the possibility of a future BIOS update, I'm going to assume that they just saw "RAID" and ran with the assumption it did both.

Well, then you should chastise Anand also, since he's saying basically the exact same thing they are.

 

[Lord Evermore]

No, he's saying that it doesn't have RAID1 now, but should in the future. CNET is saying if you go buy a machine now based on 875P, you can set up RAID1 now. Technically they don't say that explicitly, but they are implying it by telling you that the chipset has RAID functions and what RAID allows you to do.

 

[BFG10K]

Hopefully this isn't a fundamental flaw in the chip and can be fixed by a minor design tweak and/or microcode updates.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Hopefully this isn't a fundamental flaw in the chip and can be fixed by a minor design tweak and/or microcode updates.

Same here, but I'm wondering why the other chips didn't get delayed using the same bus speeds and HT. When are those to be released anyway because if they aren't for some time then Intel doesn't have to worry about those.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Can someone fill me in on what happened with the 1.13ghz cpu from Intel? I wasn't really into hardware related stuff at the time. Thanks in advance.

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
Can someone fill me in on what happened with the 1.13ghz cpu from Intel? I wasn't really into hardware related stuff at the time. Thanks in advance.

I think this covers the 1.13 GHz

 

[Challenger]

Originally posted by: bluemax
Good time for dumpster-divers near Intel fabs...

 

[Lord Evermore]

AgaBooga: only the P4 processor with 800MHz bus is delayed, not the chipsets. There has been no official 800MHz processor released yet. The CPU has a flaw, the chipset doesn't.