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To: Joey Smith who wrote (61082)	7/24/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

Joey and Thread...Two articles...Intel plans even more new CPUs... July 24, 1998 InfoWorld Electric : Just a day after rewriting its road map for Basic PC Celeron processors, Intel on Wednesday did the same for its desktop/mobile and workstation/server Pentium II processors, detailing plans for faster, cheaper, cooler chips to debut next year. Next year's shrink from a 0.25-micron process to 0.18-micron geometries will increase speeds because the chip is smaller, reduce production costs because each wafer holds more chips, and cut power consumption because the chips operate at lower voltages, explained Tony Massimini, chief of technology at Semico Research, in Phoenix. All of Intel's Pentium II processors will have shifted from the 0.35-micron Klamath design to the 0.25-micron Deschutes architecture this quarter, an Intel representative said. Last week, Paul Otellini, Intel's executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture business group, said that most of Intel's processor production had moved to the 0.25-micron process. Next year, Intel plans to offer IA-32 microprocessors using a 0.18-micron process, Otellini said. Those processors will include the Katmai New Instructions that Intel will be introducing early next year, according to the Intel representative. The first transition, early in 1999, will be from the Pentium II processor for desktops and notebooks and the Pentium II Xeon for workstations and servers to, respectively, a processor also code-named Katmai for desktop and notebook applications and the Tanner CPU, a Pentium II Xeon-class CPU with Katmai New Instructions. Although Intel will build those two processors using its current 0.25-micron process, the company will quickly follow them with 0.18-micron versions. The Coppermine desktop and mobile chip and the Cascade workstation and server CPU will debut in the second half of next year, the Intel representative said. The transition to 0.18-micron manufacturing is ahead of schedule, according to Otellini, so Intel is planning production of the first parts at least a quarter earlier than expected. "We've pulled in our plans on 0.18," the Intel representative concurred. On Tuesday, Intel announced it would be shipping higher-speed Celeron processors earlier than originally anticipated. ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Intel adds faster chips July 24, 1998 PC Week: Intel Corp. said today it will introduce two .18-micron Pentium II processors in the second half of 1999. The news comes two days after Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced it will introduce a copper-based chip in the first half of 2000. IBM Microelectronics, meanwhile, is expected to release a copper-based PowerPC as early as this year. One Intel processor, code-named Cascades, will be geared toward workstations and servers, while the other, code-named Coppermine, will be for notebook and desktop PCs. Both will include Katmai New Instructions, a set of integrated 3D instructions that should improve performance of high-end, graphics-intensive applications. Intel (INTC) will also produce a .18-micron version of Celeron, but that is not likely to hit the market until 2000, said Howard High, a spokesman for the Santa Clara, Calif., company. High declined to state clock speeds for Cascades and Coppermine, although he said it will be significantly higher than the top-of-the-line 400MHz Pentium II Xeon chips available today. AMD on Monday said it will reach 1GHz in the first half of 2000 with copper technology obtained through a cross-licensing deal with Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector. IBM (IBM), which demonstrated a copper-based 400MHz PowerPC in the first quarter of this year, will also build copper chips for high-end computers. The smaller .18-micron manufacturing process is significant for all chip makers because it enables them to churn out greater volumes of higher-performance chips at lower cost. Intel said it will complete the transition to .25 micron processors by the end of this year ______________________________________________________________________ It looks like Intel knows exactly where it needs to go and has fired up it's teams to get there fast! Michael