[CoSD]Headbanger bracht ons een link naar The Register alwaar wordt gemeld dat Intel's Fab 18 fabriek in Isreal de komende zes weken een miljoen Pentium 4 1.7GHz processoren zal produceren. Hieronder een gedeelte:
Chipzilla has ordered its plant in Israel, Fab 18, to drop everything and produce 5,000 Pentium 4 wafers - each containing around 200 little P4s - within six weeks.
Sources close to Fab 18 tell The Reg that these chips will be rated at 1.7GHz.
Fab 18 is used to dealing with abrupt U-turns. Until March, the plant had been churning out loads of Timna system on a chip (SoC) processors, but switched over to Pentium IIIs in early April and has shipped 10 million Coppermines since then. [So how come there's still a shortage, then? - Ed].