Intel sued over Pentium 4

"A small group of PC owners has quietly filed a class action lawsuit against Intel, Gateway, and Hewlett-Packard alleging the companies misled them into believing the Pentium 4 was a superior processor to Intel's own Pentium III and AMD's Athlon," reports PCWorld.com. It sounds as though they have been reading too many of those "megahertz myth" articles promoted by suppliers with slower processors. It's true but trivial to say you can design a processor to do more work per clock cycle. If you have a slow 666MHz chip that may be very important. But if you are designing something that will go at 4GHz, it's silly to apply the same criteria. And whatever computer scientists might say, in a market where clock cycles sell like hot cakes, it looks like commercial stupidity, too.