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Flaw delays 'Canterwood' Pentium 4 shipments

By Derek Sooman

On April 14, 2003, 3:37 PM

Intel delivered a new chipset on schedule Monday but delayed a matching Pentium 4 processor at the last minute, leaving a raft of upcoming PCs without a processor, at least for a while. The chipmaker had planned to deliver both its new 875P chipset and a new 3GHz Pentium 4 processor, paving the way for a number of new desktop and workstation models from PC makers including Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway.

The possibility of a problem with the 3GHz Pentium 4, discovered at the last minute, forced the company to delay the chip late Sunday. During tests, Intel found "anomalies" with the new chips and decided not to deliver any more of them to PC manufacturers.

Read more: CNet News.

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  1. April 14, 2003 4:24 PM
    running said:
    First the Athlon 64, and now this. Hm...
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  2. April 14, 2003 5:18 PM
    gezzas525 said:
    In my opinion its probably thermal issues, the 3Ghz P4 with the 533 FSB is already at 85W. This is getting to be a big problem nowI was told the 3.2Ghz is over 100W !!!well seems like AIR COOLING is about to go obsoliteKLEOS
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