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PLATFORM-LEVEL STRATEGY
Intel has abruptly changed plans to ship a 4GHz Pentium 4 processor and instead will focus on platform-level enhancements to its entire chip lineup.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant will reassign resources allocated for a 4GHz launch into other critical areas, including its rollout next year of dual-core processors and its complex lineup of chipsets and other system building blocks, executives said.
Jeff Austin, a platform marketing manager for Intel, suggested the change in focus to other benchmarks and platform-level functions from clock speed will also change...