No, I’m not referring the (UK) Deputy Prime Minister flooring a protester in last years election campaign.

In a webcast on the 25th, Intel said that it was on its way to delivering a 3Ghz desktop processor by the end of the year, with a 2.53Ghz P4 (with 533Mhz FSB) to be released in the second quarter.

But when Paul Otellini, Intel’s president and COO, talked about Prescott, the company’s first Pentium 4 processor to be based on 0.09- micron technology, he said that the chip will bundle the companies Hyper-Threading Technology (SMT to the non Intel-ites) it has brought rumours that Intel will incorporate its 32/64-but “Yamhill” technology into it, in an attempt to combat AMD’s Opteron due to be released in Q4’02, after what analysts believe is Intel being caught off guard with the implementation of 32/64bit technology