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To: mishedlo who wrote (50765)	8/22/2000 3:47:15 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 93625

They are walkin it down harry - next run up in a few minutes say 2:48 get out now at 92 1/2

To: mishedlo who wrote (50765)	8/22/2000 3:56:59 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Intel Officially Launches Pentium 4 at IDF Liz Neely & Tom Murphy Aug 22, 2000 --- Kicking off the Intel Developer Forum today in San Jose, Albert Yu, senior vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, officially launched the Pentium 4 processor calling it “the fastest desktop platform in the world.” It was the first time Intel publicly revealed details of the much-anticipated Pentium 4. In the works since 1996, the P4 has a rapid execution engine and is designed to run at twice the frequency of a standard chip, Yu said. It also includes a new type of cache memory, dubbed trace cache, to keep up with the execution engine. Yu said the chip has enhanced floating point and multimedia capability, and a 400MHz multisystem bus, which is three times faster than the Pentium 3 bus. The chip, operating at 1.4GHz, contains 42 million transistors and runs with 400MHz of Rambus DRAM (RDRAM). “It’s good to see the P4 for the first time after so many years,” said Nathan Brookwood, principal with Insight64. “Intel is showing that all the hype is not just that.” However, Brookwood noted that beyond the P4 details, the keynote gave little substance to other issues concerning Intel, including RDRAM, a microprocessor roadmap and chipset development. “Usually there is at least a tidbit of information, today there was nothing,” Brookwood said. Yu followed up his presentation with a photo-realistic interactive graphics demonstration. It was supposed to show the high-bandwidth capabilities of the P4 in real-time. When Yu touched a computer screen that displayed an image of a pond, the water rippled and sunlight was reflected on the water. Yu’s final demonstration pushed the P4 up to 2.002GHz, 18 months after Intel first demonstrated the 1GHz P3. Yu also introduced the Pentium 3 Xeon running at 1GHz with 256K Level 2 cache. The Xeon processor is targeted at the high-end workstation and front-end server markets and is available now running on a 133MHz system bus. Intel also detailed the IA-64 and Yu said the company has already shipped more than 6,000 prototype systems to developers. Intel is working closely with software developers, Yu said. There are 350 applications for the P4 and pilot testing will begin in the fourth quarter, Yu added. Speaking about the mobile Pentiums, Yu encouraged the industry to look for ways to decrease power consumption for the entire system, not just the processors. While most notebooks have a battery life of about six hours, Yu said the goal is to extend the life to eight to 10 hours.