Commentary: The P4 presses on

The market for new PCs may have slowed down a bit, but the race to build faster processors keeps zooming along. With the announcement today of the 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processors, Intel has extended its lead--at least in terms of raw clock speed--over rival AMD (the Athlon chip currently tops out at 1.33GHz).Is the 1.7GHz gratuitous technology for desktops? Read the column. -- John Morris & Josh Taylor, ZDNet Reviews