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To: Tony Viola who wrote (125539)	1/18/2001 9:23:59 PM
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Is this old news? (I realize it doesn't begin to compare to the significance to the Intel thread of Scumbria's Jerkball truck.) Intel developing new chip for lighter laptops By John G. Spooner Special to CNET News.com January 17, 2001, 12:20 p.m. PT ...Intel's former Timna design team is familiar with big challenges. Based in Israel, the group is stewarding the new chip's design. Timna was Intel's ill-fated integrated Celeron processor. The chip would have featured a processor core, input and output controller, and graphics-processing engine in a single package aimed at reducing overall PC costs. But the chip was designed for expensive Rambus-based memory, which has yet to migrate to the low end of the PC market. Intel was forced to push Timna back as it designed a memory translator hub, a chip that would translate memory signals meant for Rambus memory to the more popular SDRAM. Problems with the hub, which forced Intel to recall some 1 million motherboards, eventually led to the cancellation of Timna. But it is likely that the former Timna team will put its knowledge to good use in designing the new chip. ... news.cnet.com