Intel's Top 10 Sneakiest Moves & Screwups

DMW · SirTweaksabit Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 457

So without further ado, I bring you Intel's Top 10 Sneakiest Moves & Screwups of the Pentium era!

#10 The Processor Serial ID Conspiracy
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#9 Cacheless Celeron Fiasco
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#8 The Pentium MMX 'F0 0F' Math Bug
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#7 The (In)Famous Memory Translator Hub
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#6 Celeron: Downplaying the Use of SMP
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#5 Pentium 4: Downplaying the Lack of SMP
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#4 Prodding the Upgrade
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#3 MMX "Technology"
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#2 The Pentium III 1.13GHz Recall
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#1 The Rambus Partnership
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! UPDATE! Intel Recalls Pentium 4

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DMW · SirTweaksabit Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 457

now....let's see if it ever comes out that they take 3GHz w/800MHz FSB chips and remark them as 2.4GHz 2.6GHz and 2.8GHz, unlock'em, set the flags and there they go....just for OC bragging rights...........lololol

just an un-educated "not knowing the history of the company" theory of mine.

icyrus76 · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 2:14 pm Post subject:

hahahahha...oc bragging rights?!..lol..it'll take intel quite a while before they can steal that from AMD..haha..just double check the chip..lol..it'd be expected if it's remarked as a 2.x chip...
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Both companys have their pro's and con's. Let's leave it to that and not start a company bashing discussion.

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