Raise and fall of Intel
I was never a fan of Intel for quite a simple reason – buying Intel chips was not optimal from my point of view. Other companies provided a better performance-to-price ratio. But I understand that nobody can tell any company how much money they should ask for their products and it is strictly up to them. If Intel wants to sell their processors for a lot of money it is their business. But in general, they were making good and solid products.
But everything changed from the release of Pentium 4. At that time Intel figured out that everybody was buying megahertz they decided to create a CPU with a lot of megahertz. And then Pentium 4 was born.
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