*ten years later*
BlueRayPiddy: Dam! we should have betted on Transmetta
Winux: Yeah, the Athlon128 let us down bigtime
I actually wonder what people in 10 years will think of us and out Conroe VS AM2 remarks and how wrong some of us will be (could be me or you - never know).
BTW - Pentium M and Pentium 3 architecture is P6 architecture made around the days of the Pentium 1 (p54c) and brought the most amount of changes to cpu design at once then any other x86 cpu, its design has been round for years and is about to come back to replace the P4 - the good old P3 days again... tell me what P6 design was a failure? cause every single one was colder and quicker then the last (aproximate thermal specs + nm + max speed sold): P6(350nm, 40w, 200mhz) -> clamath(350nm 40w 333mhz) -> deschutes(30w 250nm 450mhz) -> Katmai(30w 250nm 600mhz) -> Coppermine(30w 180nm 1000mhz) -> Tualatin (27w 130nm 1400mhz) -> bananas (27w 130nm 1700mhz) -> dothan (30w 90nm 2133mhz) -> yonah (30w 65nm 2x2000mhz) -> conroe (????) - the design is proven, same as AMDs series and design so i give intel credit for waking up and ditching netburst/P4 for there best architecture they had all along.