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To: Don Green who wrote (78137)	8/29/2001 12:07:58 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 93625

Intel Shows Consumers Why They Need A 2GHz Machine Electronic News By Tom Murphy, Electronic News -- 8/28/01 Paul Otellini, Intel Corp.’s executive vice president and general manager of its architecture group, kicked off the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose today by trying to answer the question of why most people need a 2GHz Pentium 4 machine. Most of his comments were tainted by the industry downturn, which has resulted in flagging personal computer sales and disappointing demand for the company’s flagship line of processors. "There are significant opportunities for you as codevelopers to take advantage of the raw MIPS available to throw more processing power at users," Otellini said at the conclusion of his keynote address. "With parallelism, multi-threading (and) new technology for mobile computing...which will be placed on the back of the Itanium family, together we can build real products and re-ignite the growth in the industry." One of the surprises Otellini unveiled in his keynote address is Intel’s (nasdaq: INTC) ability to use logic to make an ordinary P4 behave as a multi-core Itanium enterprise server. This potential capability could give the P4 some validation. Critics believe the processor actually stole some performance from the Pentium III family by executing less instructions per cycle. Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight 64, Saratoga, Calif., said the new multi-threading announcement, which may not be seen in consumer desktops for years, could bring performance to users that is not seen outside of workstations and servers. In addition, the capability would warrant some of the changes the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker made in the P4 architecture as a superior successor to the Pentium III. In addition, Otellini showcased applications that Intel believes could drive the demand for more processing power. He said demand for processing power usually comes in waves in answer to questions of why people actually need a 2GHz processor. In a demonstration of a 3.5GHz process, Intel showed a family household networked through a wireless 802.11 LAN. It operated a game in one room, provided four video inputs to other rooms, allowed one user to program a record time in yet another room and allowed another user to call up a video from a catalog. The performance of a 3.5GHz processor makes it possible, as the demonstration used every bit of the 5,000 MIPS available, Otellini said. Otellini also disclosed Banias, Intel’s latest technology to allow portable computers to operate longer and use less battery life. But the single most compelling feature was Windows XP, Brookwood said. The reliability and user features of the new operating system from Microsoft will be the single most important driver for PC sales in the coming months, he said.