Now I just wanted to get the current roadmaps straight, from what we know right now... You guys help me out here? Here we go...
<b><font color=blue>Intel:</b> February, the 2st (Monday): Prescott officially launched. Clock speeds 2.8, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4Ghz. Pentium Extreme Edition at 3.4Ghz and for US$999.</font color=blue>
<b><font color=blue>Intel:</b> February, the 16th (Monday): IDF starts. Price reduction for current Northwoods.</font color=blue>
<b><font color=green>AMD:</b> March, the 29th (Monday): AMD launches socket 939 officially. To go with it, we'll be seeing an Athlon FX-53 clocked at 2.4Ghz and featuring 1MB cache. In addition to that, we should have an A64 3400+ and 3700+ too.</font color=green>
<b><font color=blue>Intel</b>: March, the 29th: (Monday) Intel launches Grantsdale and Alderwood. These new chipsets should change the desktop scenario quite a lot with the introduction of mainstream PCI Express and DDR-II; DDR-II can go as high as 533Mhz (8.5GB/s in dual channel configuration) or 667Mhz (10.7GB/s in dual channel configuration). DDR-II at 533Mhz has already been validated and is ready for production.</font color=blue>
I think this is all we've got on exact dates. The last addition, March, the 29th, for Intel's Grantsdale and Alderwood, is a date from <A HREF="http://www.x86-secret.com" target="_new">http://www.x86-secret.com</A>.
Also, I think AMD's FX-53 is coming a little late... But that will only be a problem for them if Prescott turns out to be a great processor and is better than Northwood. They might not be able to introduce anything better than that FX-53 until 90nm... Or so I've read.
<font color=red><b>M</b></font color=red>ephistopheles
<b><font color=blue>Intel:</b> February, the 2st (Monday): Prescott officially launched. Clock speeds 2.8, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4Ghz. Pentium Extreme Edition at 3.4Ghz and for US$999.</font color=blue>
<b><font color=blue>Intel:</b> February, the 16th (Monday): IDF starts. Price reduction for current Northwoods.</font color=blue>
<b><font color=green>AMD:</b> March, the 29th (Monday): AMD launches socket 939 officially. To go with it, we'll be seeing an Athlon FX-53 clocked at 2.4Ghz and featuring 1MB cache. In addition to that, we should have an A64 3400+ and 3700+ too.</font color=green>
<b><font color=blue>Intel</b>: March, the 29th: (Monday) Intel launches Grantsdale and Alderwood. These new chipsets should change the desktop scenario quite a lot with the introduction of mainstream PCI Express and DDR-II; DDR-II can go as high as 533Mhz (8.5GB/s in dual channel configuration) or 667Mhz (10.7GB/s in dual channel configuration). DDR-II at 533Mhz has already been validated and is ready for production.</font color=blue>
I think this is all we've got on exact dates. The last addition, March, the 29th, for Intel's Grantsdale and Alderwood, is a date from <A HREF="http://www.x86-secret.com" target="_new">http://www.x86-secret.com</A>.
Also, I think AMD's FX-53 is coming a little late... But that will only be a problem for them if Prescott turns out to be a great processor and is better than Northwood. They might not be able to introduce anything better than that FX-53 until 90nm... Or so I've read.
<font color=red><b>M</b></font color=red>ephistopheles