Yousuf Khan wrote:
willbill wrote:

Yousuf Khan wrote:

Dropped power just as they are getting ready to discontinue them.
They have a ton of previous P4's and PD's to get rid of in their
inventory, and those they are likely going to have to write off.



i hadn't thought of that

i revise my "tough stuff" to VERY tough stuff

but i somehow doubt that previous P4's will be
written off; but i could be wrong given what
is going on


Once Core 2 starts getting sold in any great numbers
who is going to want to buy the P4's?


people will go where a) the performance is
and/or b) price/performance/heat(lackof) is

we've all been assuming that P4 is dead,
and that Pentium M is Intel's future

this power reduction with P4 makes me wonder

i also note that Pentium M and Core 2 Duo are
both seen as generation 6 (by www.sandpile.org;
see 3rd line under "impl": PM and Core)

whereas they see P4 as generation 7 (3rd line
under "impl": P4)

not that "7" means it's inherently better



the reason for newegg's price drop on Opty 940 CPUs
(this past week) looks like their (AMD) intro of
AMD Santa Ana and Santa Rosa, which weren't there
on my capture of newegg's August 8 Opty prices


Socket F?


Santa Ana is Opteron with socket AM2

Santa Rosa is Opteron with socket F

both appear to be strictly dual core.
at least, Newegg isn't showing any quad
core Opteron CPUs

bill