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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Intel Scraps Desktop, Server Chip Plan

Reuters reports that: "The chips being canceled include the fourth-generation Pentium 4 chip, code-named Tejas, which was to be sold next year. Also being dropped is a new Xeon processor for low-end computer servers, code-named Jayhawk and believed to be based on a similar architecture to Tejas. Intel plans to introduce dual-core chips for desktop computers in 2005 and plans to start shipments of dual-core chips for notebook computers the same year, spokeswoman Laura Anderson said.

"Dual-core was originally a feature to be introduced in Intel's Itanium chips for powerful data-serving business computers, she said. 'It's kind of a matter of reprioritizing our resources and accelerating development of dual core,' she said.

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