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Story: Intel confirms chip-naming change

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Intel wants to discourage or make it harder for consumers to compare based on clock speed, or 'equivalant' clock speed, because their chips' perfomance (aside from the very expensive Extreme Edition) can no longer compete with AMD's Athlon series. Check out the bechmarks at HarcOCP.com and you'll see that the Pentium 4 loses to the Athlon 64 hands down, especially when you factor in price. They want consumers to focus on "features" instead of speed now to take their attention away from this shortcomming. Can the average end user still benefit from ever faster processors? This is an old question you may want to revisit in another article.

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