Semi - More news on Tualatin CPUS and Motherboards available for retail sales !
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Saturday, July 14, 2001
Desktop Tualatin Now in Retail
Those desktop Tualatin processors, which were showcased in Japan this week, as we have already told you, are now selling in Japanese retail hardware stores. In the meanwhile, you can find only 1.13GHz CPUs, while 1.2GHz are still available only as samples. These CPUs are sold in Intel boxes and are officially called Intel Pentium III 1.13AGHz. The letter "A" after 1.13 serves to distinguish Tualatin based Pentium III from Coppermine based ones. In other words, unlike server and mobile processors Intel decided not to think of any specific name for its desktop processors. No wonder, since the performance of desktop Tualatin processors with 256KB L2 cache is hardly any different from Pentium III Coppermine working at the same clock frequency.
Note that desktop Tualatin CPUs do not officially support dual-processor configurations that is why there is a note on the box saying: "for uni-processor systems only". The newcomer is selling at a price a bit less than $300.
The fact that Tualatins are already retailing means that Intel decided to accelerate its roadmap and plane to move their announcement from the late summer to some time closer to now. As we know, on Monday Intel will be reducing the prices for some processors (Celeron family, elder Pentium III CPUs). So, the desktop Tualatin announcement may also take place at the same time. Anyway, we’ll see what comes... |
