Stonehenge & Intel Investors - Mendocino Is Alive And Running in Taiwan
This was posted as a URL but many seem to have missed the CONTENT.
I will elaborate.
Andy Grove (Remember Him?) is in Taiwan - on business, no less. During his visit, Andy demonstrated a PC running a Mendocino chip that was barely one week old - JUST OUT OF THE WAFER FAB and apparently FULLY FUNCTIONAL!
As a refresher, the Mendocino is a Deschutes with on board 128 K L2 cache which will replace the original Deschutes (WITHOUT L2 cache) as the first Celeron device.
Here is the article - not the SLot 2 XEON Demonstrations as well!
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infoworld.com
Intel demonstrates future Celeron,
Xeon processors in Taiwan
By Terho Uimonen
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 5:12 PM PT, May 11, 1998
TAIPEI - Intel Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Andy Grove gave Asian computer industry executives a sneak peak at future Celeron and Pentium II Xeon processors running at speeds as fast as 500 MHz here today during a keynote address at Intel's Asia-Pacific Technology Forum.
Stressing the importance Intel is giving its new strategy of providing microprocessors to all segments of the PC market, Grove demonstrated systems running a 333 MHz version of the recently introduced Celeron family of processors targeted at low-cost
PCs, as well as a high-end workstation powered by a 500-MHz Pentium II Xeon processor.
Systems based on both processors should hit the market by the first half of 1999, Grove said.
The 333-MHz Celeron chip, developed under the code-name Mendocino, also includes 128KB of performance-enhancing Level 2 cache memory on the same piece of silicon as the processor core, Grove said, as opposed to the first 266-MHz version of the Celeron family which was introduced in April without any Level 2 cache.
Prior to introducing the 333-MHz Celeron, however, Intel will first come out with a 300-MHz version of the chip which also will include the on-chip Level 2 cache memory, noted Grove.
The first Pentium II Xeon chips, meanwhile, will be introduced later this year, running at clock-speeds of 400 MHz and 450 MHz, Grove said. The Xeon chips will be targeted squarely at high-end servers and workstations, and will come in a new cartridge packaging that will fit into a new interface architecture dubbed Slot 2.
To further boost the performance of the Xeon processors, the 400-MHz and 450-MHz version cartridges will include as much as 1MB of Level 2 cache memory, Grove said.
Intel, in Santa Clara, Calif., can be reached at (408) 987-8080 or intel.com.
Tehro Uimonen is a Taipei correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld
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