Excerpt from the November 13, 1998 link at news.com
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The chip that will launch notebooks into the 600-MHz realm is "Coppermine", a processor built around the Pentium II and includes the upcoming Katmai technology for enhanced multimedia performance.
Coppermine will be the first chip made by Intel under a next-generation manufacturing process. "The first product of the 0.18-micron [manufacturing] generation will be tailored for notebooks," he said. "For the first time in a long time we will be able to match desktop performance in mobile."
Coppermine will appear in desktops and notebooks in the second half of 1999.
Mobile sales have on average been outpacing desktop sales by 3 percent, said Paul Otellini, head of the architecture business group at Intel. Other executives pointed out that notebooks will constitute up to 60 percent of all PC sales in Japan in the near future.
Market segmentation will also come to the mobile market, he added. Intel will release 266-MHz and 300-MHz versions of its low-budget Celeron chips for notebooks in the first half. This will result in notebooks in the sub-$1,500 range and notebooks that approach the $999 price point.
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Presently, 366MHz/333MHz is state of the art for laptop/wearable Pentium IIs, and 300MHz/266MHz for laptop/wearable Celerons. I believe the MA-IV uses an older Pentium MMX chip but, as expected, I couldn't find this info on the Xybernaut specifications web page.
Bill, thanks for providing the link in an earlier post.
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