Intel's new 533MHz FSB CPUs - P4 2.53GHz
AnandTech | at | by Mike
Whether you like Intel or not, you can't argue that the Pentium 4 of today is infinitely more competitive than what was launched a year and a half ago. But did we honestly expect any different? Intel received the same treatment at the launch of their P5 processors at 60/66MHz; competing solutions from AMD such as the 486 DX4-120 were much better buys and although they were running on an older 486 platform, they had more of an upgrade path than the soon to be forgotten 5V P5 processors. Remember the launch of the Pentium Pro? It has been said that until the Pentium 4, Intel has never released a processor that actually performed worse than its previous generation offering. With the majority of the applications back in 1995 written for 16-bit versions of Windows, the Pentium Pro's horrendous 16-bit application performance left everyone but a small percentage of users with a bad aftertaste.