Originally posted by: dude
Originally posted by: 7757524
Duvie is right. The hammer is rumored to launch at 1.6ghz only. <STRONG>Intel could easily launch a P4 at 3ghz now</STRONG> but it doesn't have to because it holds the lead with 2.53 and can charge full price for it. The Hammer will only ship to OEMs at the end of this year and will be available to consumers at the beginning of next year. Intel has so many things in the works that we've read about they can release by then. Among them are: 666mhz FSB 800mhz FSB Dual channel DDR333 to match the 666FSB Hyperthreading 1meg L2 cache .09U process Don't count Intel out just yet.
I highly doubt that they could do that. Look at the people with 2.5 Ghz processors. How many of them can easily reach 3 ghz? I'm not saying that they can't do it, but if they do do it, they'll have a whole new chapter to the P3 1.13ghz crumble.
Current P4 process isn't reliable up to 3 Ghz yet, otherwise they'd have these processors out already, being <STRONG>sold at $2000</STRONG>.
😉