P4 - 3.2ghz... with multithreading...

[sarettah]

From:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/23/...pentium4_1.html (http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/23/HNpentium4_1.html)

Intel brings the Pentium 4 to 3.2GHz
Fastest chip in Intel's line features 800MHz front-side bus, hyperthreading

By Tom Krazit, IDG News Service June 23, 2003

The Pentium 4 processor got a little faster Monday, as Intel bumped up the processor's clock speed to 3.2GHz, making it the fastest chip in Intel's product line.

The new processor has an 800MHz front-side bus and support for hyperthreading, two features that have been rolled out to most Pentium 4 chips over the last few months. Hyperthreading is a technique used to make a single processor handle more than one instruction thread at the same time.
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The company is shipping processors to system vendors worldwide as of Monday, Intel said. The new Pentium 4 processor costs $637 in quantities of 1,000 units.

[voodooman]

Check out www.voodoopc.com

haha, I custom built the computer I want,
its going to cost me 8,500 bucks.

[Almighty Colin]

Ran across this morning.

CNN. 2.23.03 (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/06/23/apple.new.reut/index.html)

Cupertino-California-based Apple introduced a new desktop computer based on the G5 chip, which can manage 64 bits of data at once, compared with 32 bits for traditional computers.

"The PowerPC G5 changes all the rules. This 64-bit race car is the heart of our new Power Mac G5, now the world's fastest desktop computer," Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder and chief executive, told the company's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.

[Almighty Colin]

If Moore's Law holds, Intel will be announcing a 6.4GHz chip about January 2005.

[Blacker]

Apparently, the P4 3.2 is the last of the P4 range that Intel will be commercially releasing ... next will probably be, just taking a wild guess here, the P5 ?
:biglaugh:

[Timon]

Do we really need faster CPU's??

I'd rather have faster HDD's!