Jimbo - Here's something for the K63 to shoot for:
"Geyserville will be introduced in the mobile version of Intel's Pentium III processor, which is due by the end of the year. The mobile Pentium III will run at 600 MHz or faster in high-performance mode, and around 500 MHz when the user is mobile, Jecman said. "
The K63 ought to do quite a bit better than this, eh Jimmy ?
Paul
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infoworld.com
Intel touts technology to bring mobile-desktop parity
By James Niccolai InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 6:21 AM PT, Feb 25, 1999 PALM SPRINGS, Calif -- As expected, Intel demonstrated a new mobile processor technology here Wednesday that it said will allow notebook performance to almost match that of desktop PCs before the end of the year.
The new technology, code-named Geyserville, allows a chip to operate in two modes -- a high-performance mode and a battery-optimized mode.
When a notebook is plugged into a main power outlet, the processor runs at its maximum clock speed. When the notebook is unplugged, Geyserville allows the chip to automatically drop to a lower frequency mode, preserving battery life. Power consumption has been one of the chief inhibitors of faster clock speeds in notebook computers.
"This is a revolutionary technology that will allow us to offer unprecedented levels of mobile computing power without compromising battery life at all," said Robert Jecmen, vice president and general manager of Intel's mobile and handheld products group, in a presentation Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum here.
Geyserville will be introduced in the mobile version of Intel's Pentium III processor, which is due by the end of the year. The mobile Pentium III will run at 600 MHz or faster in high-performance mode, and around 500 MHz when the user is mobile, Jecman said.
As well as allowing the processor to run at a lower clock speed, Geyserville also switches the voltage operation of the processor, further conserving battery life.
One analyst here said Intel will probably give users the option to switch to full-power mode even when they are mobile. This would drain the battery quickly but provide users on the road with a short burst of performance if they need it, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64 in Saratoga, Calif.
Besides the faster clock speed, the mobile Pentium III will also benefit from a 30 percent increase in the front-side bus speed over today's mobile Pentium II, as well as a large on-chip Level 2 cache and a set of processor instructions designed to boost multimedia performance. The bus speed affects how fast the processor can exchange data with other parts of the system.
Intel's fastest mobile Pentium II today runs at 366 MHz. Before the mobile Pentium III is introduced, Intel plans to switch to an advanced manufacturing process midyear, known as 0.18 micron, that will allow it to crank the speed of the Pentium II up to 433 MHz, Jecmen said.
Geyserville was demonstrated here Wednesday with a Pentium II processor which ran at 500 MHz on mains power and 400 MHz on batteries.
Intel Corp., based in Santa Clara, Calif., can be reached at www.intel.com.
James Niccolai is a San Francisco correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate.
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