In English, all this means is that prices of other P4 Chips will fall, which is good for everybody. No one is going to go out and spend a half-grand on a chip, now are they?
“Intel on Monday will come out with a Pentium 4 running at 3.2GHz and will separately discuss a new version of its upcoming Madison chip specially enhanced for dual-processor servers and workstations.
The 3.2GHz Pentium 4 will likely be the fastest desktop chip on the market for a few months. The Pentium 4 has already opened a slight gap over the rival Athlon from Advanced Micro Devices, according to benchmark testers, and AMD is not expected to come out with another desktop chip until September when the Athlon64 debuts. PCs containing AMD chips often sell for less than do computers running Intel chips of the same speed.
The 2GHz PowerPC 970, coming out in new Power Macs, will likely be close in performance to these chips, said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64, but the 2GHz chip won’t likely hit store shelves for a while, he added.” [News.com]