First Dual-Core Pentium 4 a Rush Job, Intel Says
Thats great….lets screw consumers, ask them to pay for a stopgap product, just so we can beat AMD to the punch. This article really irritates me, and will definitely make me think twice before ever buying an Intel product again
ntel’s first dual-core chip was a hastily concocted design that was rushed out the door in hopes of beating rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to the punch, an Intel engineer told attendees at the Hot Chips conference today.
Following the company’s realization that its single-core processors had hit a wall, Intel engineers plunged headlong into designing the Smithfield dual-core chip in 2004, but they faced numerous challenges in getting that chip to market, according to Jonathan Douglas, a principal engineer in Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, which makes chips for office desktops and servers.
“We faced many challenges from taking a design team focused on making the highest-performing processors possible to one focused on multicore designs,” Douglas said in a presentation on Intel’s Pentium D 800 series desktop chips and the forthcoming Paxville server chip, both of which are based on the Smithfield core.
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