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To: Apollo who wrote (19351)	3/7/2000 6:34:00 PM
From: nosmo_king	Respond to of 54805

Sources say 1-GHz Pentium IIIs coming March 8 Hi Apollo, AMD didn't wait till the end of the month for their 1-GHz chip. It's due out later this week! And while Dell, HP and IBM will be packing the Intel chip, Compaq and Gateway will be using AMD's: www1.compaq.com And faster and faster chips around the corner (of course)... zdnet.com -snip- AMD is bringing up a new manufacturing facility -- Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany, which will be the home base for its next-generation, gigahertz-plus Athlon chip. That Athlon, based on AMD's Thunderbird processor core, will scale well past 1GHz. The core's most important characteristics, aside from clock speed, are performance enhancements in the form of integrated Level 2 cache and the ability to utilize copper metal interconnects. Integrated cache, which runs at the full processor clock rate, can provide performance increases upward of 10 percent. Copper interconnects, which connect transistors inside a processor, serve to help increase clock-speed performance over the aluminum interconnects used today by AMD and other chip makers. -snip- -skip some, snip again- Where's Intel? Unlike at AMD's Sunnyvale, Calif., offices, it was a quiet Monday newswise at Intel's Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters. That is because Intel has yet to announce its 1GHz Pentium III chip. Sources say, however, that the company will announce its 1GHz Pentium III on Wednesday. The announcement should be accompanied by supporting announcements by PC makers, including Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HWP), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL), all of which will offer 1GHz Pentium III-based PCs. Intel, for its part, is also working on a gigahertz-plus chip. This chip, known by the code name Willamette, is due in the second half of the year. Intel recently demonstrated the chip running at 1.5GHz. The chip, which will begin at gigahertz-plus speeds, will also offer integrated cache, a 400MHz system bus and dual Rambus RDRAM (Rambus direct RAM) memory channels, among other features. It will also include a new multimedia instruction set, similar to the Pentium III's Streaming SIMD Extensions. The instruction set is tuned to help speed video and speech recognition processing, among other things. -end snip- And, unless I am misunderstanding, there's no "Rambus Inside" for any of the Compaq products. AMD +6 1/4 INTC -1 5/8 and, despite Compaq's lack of support, RMBS +38 25/32 ! nosmo