[OT] just coincidence ?

[Trevor J. Hutley]

Having just been at a class on Competitive Intelligence, I just 
wonder if the (below, rumoured) new P4 announcement on Monday (start 
date of the Apple WWDC) is just coincidental, or whether it is more a 
pre-emptive strategic move by Intel?  If Intel thought (knew) that a 
competitor was about to announce a significant, very fast CPU, what 
better tactic than to make an announcement the same day, to dilute 
the impact of the competitive move.

T.

Intel to launch 3.2GHz P4 on Monday
By Tony Smith
Posted: 20/06/2003 at 13:14 GMT

Intel is expected to announce a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 on Monday at $637 a pop.

And it is believed that ATI will unveil its latest Pentium 4 chipsets 
on the same day.

The new processor will support a 200MHz frontside bus quad-pumped for 
an effective 800MHz frequency. It will contain 512KB of on-die L2 
cache and be produced using a 0.13 micron fabrication process.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/31345.html