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To: Paul Engel who wrote (73153)	2/8/1999 2:30:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Get serious - only a FOOL would believe MXi is going to be a saleable product. Not true. If the graphics performance is high and the price is low, it might be an immensely popular product. No matter how you try to rationalize it, we are headed towards the really, really cheap computer. And Intel has the most to lose. Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (73153)	2/8/1999 2:50:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - Intel's FIrst 0.18 Micron CPUs may come in June This article predicts Intel will ship in June MOBILE 400 and 433 MHz Pentium IIs with 256K of Integrated L2 cache - essentially a shrunken version of DIXON (probably with only 5 metal layers). Note that 433 and 466 DESKTOP Celerons are due before that time - but these will most likely be 0.25 micron devices. And in the fall, the COPPERMINE is due - a 0.18 micron version of the Pentium III with Katmai New Instructions plus L2 cache. In the MOBILE configuration, it will have a 100 MHz 440 BX chip set with speeds from 400 to 500 MHz ! The details follow. Paul {=============================} zdnet.com Mobile Pentium III to sport 100MHz bus New Intel CPUs will push past 500MHz By John G. Spooner, PC Week Online February 5, 1999 9:00 AM ET For IT managers who are tired of mobile chip upgrades that yield only minimal performance improvements, Intel Corp. has several CPUs up its sleeve. Intel (Nasdaq:INTC) plans to significantly increase notebook performance before the third quarter with new, mobile Pentium II processors. But a bigger boost will come later in the year when the Santa Clara, Calif., company unveils its first mobile Pentium III processors, which will use the 440BX chip set with a 100MHz system bus. Intel plans to release 400MHz and 433MHz mobile Pentium II processors in June, sources said. The new chips will offer 256KB of integrated Level 2 cache, like their 333MHz and 366MHz Pentium II predecessors, but they will be Intel's first processors manufactured using its 0.18-micron process, sources said. The 0.18-micron process, among other things, decreases power consumption compared with current 0.25-micron chips. Users interested in larger gains can look to the end of the third quarter or beginning of the fourth, when Intel debuts its mobile Pentium III processor, code-named Coppermine. Along with the new Coppermine chip, which makes its debut at 400MHz, Intel will bump the speed of its mobile system bus, throwing the switch on its 440BX chip set to increase throughput from 66MHz to 100MHz, sources said. Increasing system bus band-width can increase performance by an additional 11 percent in desktops, according to tests performed by PC Week Labs. The mobile Pentium III will include Intel's Streaming SIMD (single-instruction, multiple-data) Instructions, which enhance graphics processing, and will be manufactured using Intel's 0.18-micron process. Clock speeds on the chip will climb quickly from 400MHz to 500MHz and faster throughout the fourth quarter, sources said. In addition, the mobile Pentium III will support Intel's Geyserville technology, which allows notebooks to reduce power consumption by powering down their processors when operating on a battery. When a notebook is plugged in, its CPU operates at full clock speed. While Intel works to steadily increase performance on the high end, it will also offer incremental clock-speed upgrades for its mobile Celeron chip for low-cost notebooks. The company is planning a 333MHz mobile Celeron for the second quarter and a 366MHz version of the chip for the third quarter. With the introduction of the new mobile Celerons, Intel will begin phasing out the Pentium Processor with MMX Technology, which should disappear by the middle of this year. Slower mobile Pentium II processors, such as the 233MHz and 266MHz Pentium II, will be phased out in the second half of this year. While the new Celeron processors will go into "Basic Mobile PCs," costing $1,500 or less, IT managers should expect to see the 400MHz and 433MHz Pentium II chips mostly in mainstream notebooks, starting at about $2,000. The Pentium III chips are expected to find their way into systems costing $2,500 or more, sources said. The new mobile Celeron processors will be preceded by the next desktop Celeron, a 433MHz chip that is due March 15, sources said. A 466MHz desktop Celeron is expected to follow later in the first half of the year. Intel officials declined to comment on unannounced products.