"In the latest change to its product lineup, Intel Corp. canceled plans Thursday to release a 4-gigahertz computer microprocessor, saying it would rely approaches besides faster clock speed to improve the performance of chips," reports AP.
"In the meantime, the company plans to release a 3.8GHz Pentium 4. Besides a small increase in the frequency, it will feature 2 megabytes of onboard cache memory — double the amount on today's standard Pentium 4s. Currently, the fastest Pentium runs at 3.6GHz.
"The latest change in Intel's roadmap follows a string of adjustments and missteps by the Santa Clara-based company."