Star Apple's Glass House
Linked by David W. Kuhn on Fri 10th Jun 2005 16:34 UTC
Apple Was it Palol Rossetti that one said, "People in glass house shouldn't throw stones?" Push away the Intel this, the Pentium-M that, or perhaps the ability to use the Dual Core Pentium 4, Apple has a much bigger challenge ahead of them. For years, they have been throwing down the MHz myth and now? They are sleeping with the "enemy" according to PowerPC zealots.
E-mail Print r 0   · Read More · 142 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/8cf
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Pentium-M
by Werner on Fri 10th Jun 2005 18:50 UTC

Yes indeed, the P-M is very efficient, I have a 1.2 GHz clocked Mini and a 1.5 GHz clocked P-M machine, and the P-M machine runs circles around the mini in most tasks.

Intel did not recognize that almost for two years selling it as notebook processor only and trying to force the people towards the Pentium 4. While AMD was roasting them speedwise and from the power consumption (Amd has had a killer lineup of processors now for almost four years in a row, beating Intel technology wise left and right).

The main problem was that Intel sold the processors many years over the motto more GHz === better, but that did not work out for the Pentium-M which blows basically a P4 away which has one GHz more.

They simply could not figure out what to do with it. But now that things are moving into multicore, and that there is a huge demand for low power processors, finally intel got the clue, the last minute before it as to late.

If Intel never had the P-M (which in fact was not designed by Intel but by israelis) they now would have a much bigger problem on their hands, and basically would have lost any technological advantage over the other processor manufacturers for at least another five years.
Intel is always slow to notice if they have something significant on their hands, but they always have the last quantum of luck to just even dive through severe mistakes rather unhurt.