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Originally posted by chuckecheese@Jan 30 2003, 04:54 PM
at what point did they decide "darn we need a bigger bus" it would seem that they knew sometime in sept, oct minimum (those in the know please feel free to correct estimate) well before the dell roll out as it would take several months to reconfig to start producing the new chips. perhaps i'm wrong....
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Yeah, it's pretty upsetting that Intel screwed up so badly. According Intel's
notice for the new chip, they began releasing samples on Dec. 18, 2002.
They probably knew about the problem long before that. Ever since last June, there's been articles criticizing the XScale, saying that it's not any faster than the 3-year-old StrongARM. The initial blame was pinned on Microsoft for not optimizing the OS for XScale. But since the XScale is merely version 5 of StrongARM and run StrongARM instructions natively (its relation to StrongARM 4 is like that of Pentium MMX to Pentium), that didn't quite make sense. What I don't understand is why Microsoft didn't put the blame back on Intel, where now it seems to have belonged.
By the way, since this revision is like a bug fix for the chip, Intel will not be producing any more of the old chip (with the slower bus) once the revision finalized (which may already have happened). It expects that by March 28, it will only be shipping new version of the chip.