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To: Dan3 who wrote (138390)	6/29/2001 12:36:41 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Dan, what's with this article...says Intel, AMD battle over lower power consumption, then the article mentions no AMD chips, while Intel's Tualatin, brand name Pentium III-M is mentioned, along with some Transmeta info. Looks like very sloppy journalism where the writer starts off writing about a theme, finds nothing she can say about part of it, but doesn't go back to correct the title. I can understand why she found nothing to mention about AMD in the low power arena. Posted at 7:37 p.m. PDT Wednesday, June 27, 2001 Intel, AMD battle over lower power consumption At PC Expo, they tout new chips BY THERESE POLETTI Mercury News NEW YORK -- Silicon Valley chip rivals Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, which have been slugging it out for years over whose chip is the fastest, are now fighting over a new area -- power consumption. At the PC Expo portion of the TechXNY trade show here, both Intel and AMD, plus their Santa Clara-based rival Transmeta, are touting new chips for notebook computers that consume less power and lead to longer battery life, which is becoming increasingly important for mobile corporate customers. Executives from Intel and Compaq Computer demonstrated a new notebook called the Evo, which will have Intel's new lower-power chip that they claim can enable the 2.5-pound ultra-light computer to run as long as 7 hours with an external battery pack. The Evo is less than an inch wide. ``When could you find a product that would go from New York to Paris?'' said Ken Willett, vice president of corporate portable and desktop products at Compaq in Houston. ``With this product, I think we've got it, at least flying eastbound.'' The Evo Notebook N200, which will ship later this year, has a soon-to-be launched chip from Intel, code-named Tualatin. Intel's new chip, which will be unveiled sometime in the third quarter at a clock speed of 1.1 gigahertz, is the first in a new family of low power-consuming processors that uses what it calls a ``secret sauce'' technology to get better performance and longer battery life. Frank Spindler, vice president and general manager of Intel's mobile products group, declined to be more specific about the chip's new power management technologies. Tualatin's brand name will be Pentium III-M. ``Every major notebook manufacturer will be announcing products based on the mobile Pentium III-M,'' Spindler told the Mercury News. Transmeta, which has focused on developing lower-power mobile processors since it was founded, unveiled two new Crusoe chips at higher clock speeds, and the chips consume less than one watt of electricity. Transmeta said its new chips, which are running at clock speeds of 700, 733, 766 and 800 megahertz, consume 20 percent less power than its first generation of processors. ``One of the top buying attributes is lower power,'' said Joseph Formichelli, executive vice president of Toshiba America. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Therese Poletti at tpoletti@sjmercury.com, (415) 477-2510. siliconvalley.com Tony