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To: fyo who wrote (66023)	7/19/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1573891

fyo - Re: "Well, that's certainly interesting. Have any idea of the voltage/power consumption? Thanks" Initially, the 500 MHz Mobile Coppermines will run at 1.6 volts - but that may be reduced to 1.4 or 1.5 as the process improvements are implemented. I don't know what the power consumption will be - since 256K Bytes of SRAM are now part of the CPU power dissipation. Re: " Oh, and do you know anything about the rumors I am hearing that the .18mu mobile Celerons will just be mobile PIIIs of the above mentioned type - just with half the L2 cache disabled (and, presumably, the SSE as well)?" I have not heard such rumors. I still expect the mobile Celeron/Coppermine to have a 128 K cache - to keep the die size down and costs down. Coppermine is about 109 sq. mm - so the Mobile Celeron/Coppermine to be less than 100 sq. mm. Re: "Are Intel's mobile cores generally identical to their desktop cores - or do they make some changes to keep the power consumption down?" Dixon received a good amount of circuit tuning to get high speed at low power dissipation. Other versions may receive certain specialized process steps that are geared for lower power dissipation. Paul