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To: tejek who wrote (167773)	4/14/2003 4:13:21 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583681

Intel says stops shipping new Pentium 4 SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (Reuters) - Intel Corp. <INTC.O> on Monday said it has temporarily halted shipment of a new Pentium 4 processor targeted for video editing, high-end gaming and other computing-intensive applications after detecting a problem in a small number of the chips. The shipment was halted after the company found over the weekend that a "very small number" of the new Pentium 4 chips, which run at a clock speed of 3 Gigahertz, may not have been performing as expected, said Intel spokeswoman Laura Anderson. Intel, the world's largest maker of semiconductors, said earlier on Monday that it was rolling out the new Pentium 4, with an 800 Megahertz system bus, and a new 875P chipset, aimed at the high end of the computing market. Anderson said the chipset was not affected by the anomaly found in the processors, which serve as the brains of computers. Santa Clara, California-based Intel is working with its customers and could not release further details about the problem, according to Anderson. Halting the shipments of the processors would likely affect the availability of new systems based on the chip, Intel said. The new processor and integrated chipset would allow computer users to make an Internet phone call while streaming digital music, said Intel. "I would speculate that this is not a first order of magnitude issue or it would have shown up in testing much earlier in the process," said Thomas Thornhill of UBS Warburg. Shares of Intel were at $17.06, up 30 cents, or 1.8 percent, in late trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Monday. 04/14/03 15:30 ET Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.