Read somewhere that Intel is having a Pentium 4 moment - again.
So true.
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Intel is in a new Universe vs Pentium 4 days. Intel was 2 nodes ahead of everyone except maybe IBM at the time. TSMC was building commodity parts for low cost. ARM had no exposure inside PCs or servers and Nvidia was just coming into their own against ATI and 3dfx. In essence the only competition at time was AMD and their FABs didn't have capacity to flood the market with the new design.
Pentium 4 or Presshot (Prescott) nicknamed because you needed a water cooling block to get it to run in a reasonable temp band had a really long instruction pipeline. Intel and CEO Craig Barrett at the time believed the GHz speed would compensate Pipeline instruction flushes and mispredicts. AMD instead built a chip with a more efficient design Athlon and kicked A$$ until Merome Processor and Core 2. This is why Paul O had to bribe Dell to buy only Intel Chips if they got huge discounts. Intel lost a huge Antitrust lawsuit to AMD and EU that cost Intel around 8Billion in fines and compensation. A internal memo from Otellini to staff stated "Dell, best customer money can buy" I had a Prescott processor and I had to put a water block and radiator in my DT to keep it in the 60s and 70s C.
oh this is much much worse!
Pentium 4 was when AMD was able to get their stock to spike.
All the pentiums were about GHz so Athelon came out and had less GHz than the pentium 4 but all the benchmarks on AMD's chip were better.
Intel scratched its head, not understanding how this was possible. Their chips were had less GHz after all...
Do tell, what exactly is a "Pentium 4 moment" in your mind?