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To: Rich Young who wrote (88121)	1/7/1999 5:09:00 PM
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Pentium III will be name for Katmai By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 7, 1999, 11:10 a.m. PT Pentium III will be the name of the next generation chip from Intel, sources close to the company have confirmed, a marketing decision that allows the company to use its most successful brand name a fifth time. The chip, which was code-named Katmai, will become the standard-bearer for Intel's performance desktop chip line. The chip is based around a Pentium II core, but contains 70 additional instructions that boost multimedia performance. With a Pentium III, for example, video will run more smoothly, because a given computer can process more frames per second. Game programs will also be able to incorporate algorithms from physics to improve how objects move. As reported earlier, the chip is due in early March and will come out at 450 MHz and 500 MHz. It will run at more than 600 MHz before the end of the year, Intel has said. Initially, it will cost more than $500 but will likely sink to the $200 range by the third quarter, according to, among others, analyst Ashok Kumar of Piper Jaffray.