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To: Yousef who wrote (50056)	2/18/1999 7:31:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578398

July, May or March? The exact date of 550 Mhz Pentium III varies with the article. In San Jose Mercury Newspaper they say not until July. Apparently Barrett just said that they "would launch" one and this is Intel's future plan. Does this count as an announcment? No, just a leak of a a plan. Some good news forINTC investors after three down days the stop was +3 1/2 (128 1/8). The Pentium III did not get a standing ovation from Wall Street. Intel still remains planning 600 MHZ by year end (December). Intel Pentium III to debut at even higher clock speeds By Mark Hachman Electronic Buyers' News (02/17/99, 06:18:46 PM EDT) Intel's bid to accelerate multimedia, the Internet and electronic commerce has been complemented by a faster-than-expected rollout of its new Pentium III microprocessor. Today, Intel held an informal "preview day" to demonstrate support for its new Pentium III microprocessor, which officially launches on February 26th. The idea, according to chief executive Craig Barrett, was to “create a better experience for the end user” by accelerating various aspects of the computing process. Consistent with that vision, Intel's customers confirmed that Intel has discarded a forthcoming 533-MHz Pentium III in favor of a faster 550-MHz version. As planned, Intel will announce a 450-MHz and 500-MHz Pentium III on the 26th. A Pentium III Xeon for workstations and servers, running at similar clock speeds, will be announced at a later date. Barrett said the company “would launch” a 550-MHz version, but a company spokesman clarified that the 550-MHz chip will ship in the second quarter, when the cancelled 533-MHz version was originally expected. But the move to 550 MHz also coincides with the company's recent practice practice of accelerating the rollout of new products. “It fits in with the 100-MHz front side bus and our 0.25-micron technology. Why wait for the 133-MHz [front-side bus]?” said Patrick Gelsinger, vice-president and general manager of Intel Corp.'s desktop products group, Santa Clara, Calif., in an interview. The Pentium III features 70 new instructions, some of which can be used to process formerly hardware-based functions in software. For example, Gelsinger said a demonstration of antialiasing -- used to allow text to be more easily read on a computer screen -- was actually processed using the microprocessor, rather than the graphics chip. Likewise, Intel now claims that real-time MPEG-2 encoding can now be done entirely in software. In addition, major 3D graphics chip vendors -- who said they were prohibited from specifically discussing the Pentium III's performance enhancements -- said the combination of the Pentium III's memory streaming enhancements and single-instruction, multiple data (SIMD) capabilities translated into a 25% to 30% performance enhancement when they created Pentium III-specific, OpenGL drivers for their chips. Unlike the debut of Intel's MMX technology, which was supported by about a dozen custom-designed software applications, more than 200 software companies backed Intel in supporting the Pentium III. “The endorsement here is phenomenal,” said Richard Dougherty, president of Envisioneering Inc. When MMX was unveiled, he said, the technology was built for a vague concept of “multimedia”, which dealt with things like making a CD play better, he said. Today, Intel's chip s enhance “media access”, which encompass a broad array of topics, but ones which can be defined and specifically designed for, he said. Intel vice-president Mike Aymar emphasized that the controversial processor “serial number” built into the chip would be turned off by default to assuage privacy concerns. He showcased a site hosted by retailer The Sharper Image, San Francisco, which demonstrated 3D models of the products the company offered that could be downloaded and examined by a user offline. The Sharper Image software requires a Pentium III to operate. However, Tracy Wan, The Sharper Image's chief financial officer, said the retailer would not be using the processor ID function to enhance electronic commerce. Knowing exactly who the user is is a “fifth-level objective”, with a far lowers priority than knowing what type of products that user will want to buy. 'We've been in the catalog business for 20 years,” she said. We figure we know what the customer want s to buy without [the ID feature],” she said.