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To: Dave who wrote (157794)	2/5/2002 4:01:34 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mobile Pentium 4-Ms to launch in April theinquirer.net Notebook roadmaps By Mike Magee, 05/02/2002 11:57:50 BST INTEL HAS PULLED IN THE launch of mobile processors using the Pentium 4 .13 micron core to April, we can reveal today. While it will launch the product at speeds of 1.70GHz, with clock rates rising to 2GHz for notebook based Pentium 4s by the end of this year, shortly after introduction it will release a 1.80GHz Pentium 4-M. Roadmaps seen by the INQUIRER show that the 1.80GHz Pentium 4-M will be the top performer in this category throughout the second and third quarters of this year, but in calender quarter four, Intel will release a 2GHz mobile chip. At launch, now in April, Intel will also introduce Pentium 4-Ms at speeds of 1.70GHz, 1.60GHz, 1.50GHz and 1.40GHz, with these CPUs aiming at the professional, mainstream and performance sectors of the notebook market. Pentium 4 M chips will use the 845MP/MZ chipset, and it's pretty clear from the roadmaps we saw that right at the very end of the year Intel will start positioning these chips at the so-called "value" end of the notebook market. No details on how Intel will price these Pentium 4 Ms is yet available - but they will be introduced at the high end of the market. The introduction of chips based on the Pentium 4 .13 micron core will not spell the end to Pentium III based chips from Intel in the near future. Roadmaps indicate that the two product lines will exist side by side throughout 2002. Quite how Intel will position the two separate lines against each other is something of a mystery. We have never seen such segmentation on Intel's notebook lines previously - as well as offering Pentium 4 mobile chips, Pentium III mobile chips, and "value" or Celeron versions of these processors, the firm is also producing so called low voltage (LV) and ultra low voltage (ULV) versions of chips for the mini notebook and the Tablet PC marketplace. But the mobile Celeron low voltage 666Mhz chip has been removed from its mini notebook market, while its ultra low voltage mobile PIII-M 733MHz has also dropped off the sub notebook plans the firm has. But, paradoxically, the fact that Intel has produced a relatively cool running Pentium 4 desktop processor could spell problems for the much more expensive notebook versions of these chips. Many manufacturers are already offering notebooks which use the desktop CPU, apparently spurning the advantages of power management Speedstep technology and long battery life, by introducing cheaper notebooks that don't have these advantages. µ See Also