Date: July 3rd, 2003
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Owner, Head Editor & Hardware Reviewer)
Product was donated by: Intel
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CORPORATE PROFILE (from Intel)

For more than three decades, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. Intel's mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the Internet economy.

PRODUCT INTRODUCTION

As everyone has observed in the last two years or so, the CPU cat and mouse game has been quite entertaining with both major chip manufacturers trying to leap frog over each other and into the lead. Now, I won't be rehashing the past history and giving you the blow by blow from the past megahertz race, but as of late, Intel has more or less dusted itself off from of its past problems and has pulled ahead in the processor speed race and the gap is widening. Because of this, the enthusiast tug of war which has been won by AMD is really starting to level out and more and more AMD fans are abandoning their low overclocks from their beloved thoroughbreds and bartons and are peeking over the fence at the Intel crowds and are seeing better performance, better overclocks and cooler systems enjoyed by many a Pentium 4 user.