2.4 GHz Pentium 4 set to come out next week
WinInfo | at | by Mike
The Megahertz Myth notwithstanding, Intel will roll out its fastest desktop chip ever next week, the 2.4 GHz Pentium 4, which will also feature a smaller, cooler form factor and new accompanying chipsets that add integrated graphics and USB 2 support. One version of the chipset will use standard SDRAM memory, while the other uses double-speed DDR-RAM. Current systems will feature a 400 MHz system bus, but Intel plans to up that to 533 MHz in May. What's amazing about all this is that the new manufacturing process lets Intel create more chips using the same amount of material, which it can then sell for less than previous versions. So we can expect to see over 10 times as many Pentium 4 chips on sale this quarter as occurred during the same quarter last year. Yikes.