The Source stuurde een linkje naar dit artikel van AnandTech waarin de CPU roadmaps van Intel en AMD voor het komende jaar naast elkaar worden gelegd. We kunnen elke maand wel een nieuwe processor verwachten, dus er valt genoeg over te schrijven, maar Anand houdt het artikel kort en krachtig:
One question that continues to remain unanswered is what clock speed the first Palomino will actually run at. While we just mentioned that the first Palomino will be running at 1.5GHz, if you do the math you'll realize that 133MHz (the Athlon's new FSB) doesn't divide into 1500MHz to give a whole or a half multiplier. It is highly doubtful that AMD will use a 100MHz DDR FSB for the 1.5GHz processor, meaning that they will either introduce it as a 1466MHz part or a 1533MHz part using the 133MHz DDR FSB.
[...] Backing up a couple of months, at the start of the second quarter, in April 2001, Intel is set to release the Pentium 4 at 1.7GHz. This will continue to give the Intel at least a 200MHz clock speed advantage over AMD. We have yet to see a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 listed on any roadmaps, indicating that if one were to be manufactured that it would be released sometime in February or March of 2001.