Israel to make 1.7Ghz Pentium

July 10, 2000 2:11 PM

Israel to make 1.7Ghz Pentium Intel ordered it's plant in Israel to drop everything and produce 5,000 Pentium 4 wafers, each containing 200 Pentium 4's. Each chip will be rated at 1.7Ghz, a good .7Ghz from AMD's 1Ghz chip.
posted by dominic (2 comments total)

But what will AMD be shipping when the 1.7Ghz P4 ships?

Anyway, wake me up when Moore's Law breaks...

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!
posted by xiffix at 2:46 PM on July 10, 2000

Just because they're rated at 1.7GHz doesn't mean Intel will release them at that speed. Although 1.7 does give them some breathing room over the Athlon, just in case AMD starts releasing 1.5s or something. More likely they'll just try to stay a hundred or two megahertz over AMD's fastest chip.
posted by daveadams at 8:24 AM on July 11, 2000