Intel P4, IBM Power CPU News

Intel has confirmed that its ‘Prescott’ processor features a longer instruction pipeline than the current desktop Pentium 4. The announcement lends weight to media claims that the chip will run more slowly than its predecessor. In the meantime, you can see why Apple waited for the 90nm version of the PowerPC 970 before launching a G5-based Xserve 1U rackmount server: the latter’s heat dissipation characteristics.

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