Yousuf Khan wrote:

willbill wrote:

Yousuf Khan wrote:

Pentium D's going from 130W to 95W, and Pentium 4's
going from 86W to 65W.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34149


wow, tough stuff!


i mean it's like a prise fight (variant
of prize , sorry about the "ISA"
in a recent post to you when it should
have been PCI) with a 1-2 to the solar
plexus. 1st, low power high performance
core 2, and now this with cheap low
power P4



at least, if true


i'd like to correct that to "if accurate"

i looked at anandtech and did not find
anything on this, and also www.sandpile.org


and depending on how the revised
P4's stack up against comparable
AMD cpu's, it will put further
price pressure on AMD


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

OTOH and having slept on it, i'm guessing that
this won't much affect server CPU prices

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

per chrisv's input, www.sandpile.org is a terrific
ref on current architecture, under the "impl" heading

bill