IBM vs Intel and SOI

[iChan]

its called price discrimination and its perfectly legal

Originally posted by dho
I find this very interesting. Is there any posibilty of this being illegal? As in making life very hard for a competitor? I dont pretend to know much about the laws on this issue, anyone have any input?

 

[Code101]

It's funny how Intel is the first to do .09 on the Pentium4E! They are out and in x86 machines as we speek. Where is the .09 on the IBM chips? Intel always comes out with the technology first and then Apple/IBM comes out months later and says that they came out with it first.

SSOI belongs to Intel as it is! They are the ones that made this technology.

 

[crees!]

Originally posted by Code101
It's funny how Intel is the first to do .09 on the Pentium4E! They are out and in x86 machines as we speek. Where is the .09 on the IBM chips? Intel always comes out with the technology first and then Apple/IBM comes out months later and says that they came out with it first.

SSOI belongs to Intel as it is! They are the ones that made this technology.

newbie troll

 

[Steradian]

Originally posted by Code101
It's funny how Intel is the first to do .09 on the Pentium4E! They are out and in x86 machines as we speek. Where is the .09 on the IBM chips?

they are in the new Xserve G5's dude...they exist...and work...remember they were announced at MWSF? Here take a look at the news Here

 

[Henriok]

Originally posted by Steradian
they are in the new Xserve G5's dude...they exist...and work...remember they were announced at MWSF? Here take a look at the news Here

In all fairness. There might be some who actually have gotten production examples of Prescott, but none have got any Xserve G5s just yet.

But.. a troll is a troll is a troll. I really see no reason to argue who's first in this business when it in this case just differ a couple of weaks. It's all marketing. If Apple/IBM was the least concerned about his, they could easily shipped some Xserves early just to shut the x86 trolls up. But why bother? It's pretty obviuos that Intel failed with Prescott so the competition, and even Intel itself take this evolutionairy step quite easily. It's just the fanboys that seem to celebrate its arrival.

Intel's 90 nm production was due last September originally, but it was at least 4 months late apparently. Prescott chips are 100 W monsters, doesn't bring any significant performace increase and cost more than its predecessor. Aaah, there's a success if I ever saw one!

And it still doesn't do 64 bit processing, I might add. Athlon/Opteron and G5 win that contest on walk over. Itanium doesn't qualify. Just one of those processors cost more than an entire Power Mac G5 system. An Pentium 4EE too almost.

In the meantime IBM is closing the MHz gap fast, and AMD is readying its 90 nm fab and with it they will pack a serious punch. Will Intel keep up? That's the question I've been asking myself lately.