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To: Paul Engel who wrote (51997)	4/3/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: John Donahoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"The purpose is to accelerate those failure modes that are temperature sensitive." Is this screening/burnin procedure performed on "unpackaged" chips in a nonoperational mode? Or is it performed on "packaged" operational (ie. clocked) CPUs? JD

To: Paul Engel who wrote (51997)	4/3/1998 1:34:00 PM
From: henry tan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Intel Projects Quick Adoption Of Mobile Pentium Don't you wish the Desktop Pentium II transtition can go as fast as Mobile Pentium. crn.com By Charlotte Dunlap Santa Clara, Calif. 11:46 AM EST Fri., Apr. 03, 1998 .............. Intel Corp. said Thursday it expects quick adoption of its newest Pentium II processor aimed at the mobile market. ''We expect the mobile Pentium II processor to be the fastest transition into the PC market,'' said Stephen Nachtsheim, vice president and general manager of Intel Mobile and Handheld Products Group. He said he expects 50 percent transition into hardware products within six to nine months. Nachtsheim cited recent trends surrounding the microprocessor and hardware market, including a demand for increased performance and capabilities in PCs. Desktop prices also are down over the last year, he added, and a proliferation of sizes and weights also are being demanded by a larger number of mobile users. A number of Intel's OEM partners unveiled their mobile PC wares in conjunction with the Santa Clara-based company's unveiling of the new Pentium II processor, which is available in 233MHz and 266MHz models. Vendors showed high-end, graphically intensive portables with pricing similar to their previous versions. ''The Pentium II architecture with its dual independent bus combined with onboard L2 cache enables over 100 percent faster PowerPoint or Excel program launches,'' said Christopher Abate, group product manager, Computer Systems Division, Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. He said the processor supports complex software applications including 3-D rendering as well. The new family of Toshiba mobile PCs actually are priced lower than the company's previous version. The Tecra 780DVD is priced at $5,899, compared with the previously released Tecra750, priced at $6,700. Intel's Pentium II processor with MMX technology was introduced 14 months ago and included a 166MHz version. A 300MHz version is slated for the second half of the year. Today's mobile mini-cartridge version is one-fourth the weight of the previous chipset and one-sixth the size, Intel said.