Tony, Intel demo 700 Mhz P II in Cebit.
infoworld.com
By Terho Uimonen
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 6:57 AM PT, Mar 19, 1998
HANOVER, Germany -- Intel at the CeBit show here Thursday gave a preview of what kind of processor performance PC users can expect this year, along with a look at the future with the demonstration of a system running a Pentium II chip at more than 700 MHz.
The technology demonstration of a 0.25-micron Pentium II processor running at clock speeds as high as 702 MHz shows off the processor family's speed, said Albert Yu, Intel's senior vice president of the microprocessor products group.
"This is the first time we have reached 700 MHz," Yu said.
By 2000, Intel processors could reach speeds higher than 1GHz, predicted Yu in a question-and-answer session following his presentation, titled "Intel Architecture for Everyone."
Most of the presentation, however, was about processors that users can expect to see in systems this year, and included the following:
Intel on April 2 will introduce its first mobile Pentium II processors, running at clock speeds of 233 MHz and 266 MHz, followed by a 300-MHz model later this year, Yu said. The mobile Pentium II chips will come in a new minicartridge module with 512KB of integrated Level 2 cache memory. The new packaging will be about one-quarter the size and one-sixth the weight of the current Pentium II cartridges for desktop PCs.
Within the next 30 days, Intel will introduce the first member of its Celeron family of low-cost processors aimed at what the chip giant calls the "Basic PC" segment. The first Celeron chip will run at 266 MHz and will come in a new form factor called Single-Edge Processor Product (SEPP), Yu said. Targeted squarely at the sub-$1,000 market, the chip will have no on-board cache, but the SEPP card will fit into the same Slot 1 architecture that houses the Pentium II chips. In this year's fourth quarter, Intel will introduce a follow-up to the first Celeron product, Yu said. Intel has yet to name the product, which will run at 300 MHz and will include on-chip Level 2 cache, he added.
Also in April, Intel will introduce new additions to its Slot 1 Pentium II family running at clock speeds as high as 400 MHz and featuring a 100-MHz system bus, Yu said. In this year's second half, a 450-MHz version will also be introduced, he added.
By mid-year, meanwhile, Intel will introduce a high-bandwidth architecture for high-end workstations and servers that will include Pentium II processors in packaging that will fit into a new Slot 2 architecture and will allow for up to four-processor systems. The package will feature up to 2MB of integrated Level 2 cache that will run at the same clock speed as the processor, Yu said. Yu showed a prototype of the new package, which appeared to be about three time the size of the current Pentium II cartridge. |
