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To: Process Boy who wrote (78138)	4/8/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Prcess Boy & Intel Investors - Intel has already started 0.18 Micron Wafers for H299 sales ! Pat Gelsinger, vice president and general manager of Intel's Desktop Products Group, said at the show the 0.18-micron wafers, which will increase the performance of future processors while reducing power needs when compared to current technology, are already in fabrication. Production of processors using the technology will ramp up in the second half of the year. This really is good news ! Have you heard anything about this? Paul {==========================} crn.com Intel Unveils Processor Roadmap At WinHEC By Joseph F. Kovar Los Angeles 2:41 PM EST Thurs., Apr. 08, 1999 Intel Corp. on Thursday gave attendees at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference a look into the future with desktop and mobile processor road maps. Pat Gelsinger, vice president and general manager of Intel's Desktop Products Group, said at the show the 0.18-micron wafers, which will increase the performance of future processors while reducing power needs when compared to current technology, are already in fabrication. Production of processors using the technology will ramp up in the second half of the year. Gelsinger said 600MHz processors can be expected in the second half of the year. He also demonstrated a desktop system using a prototype 800MHz CPU. The second half of the year the industry also will see ramping up of 4X AGP and Direct RDRAM, said Gelsinger. For desktop I/O, over 50 manufactures have joined to support the 2.0 version of USB. Gelsinger expects USB 2.0 to begin ramping up by the second half of next year, when it will start to replace both the current USB as well as SCSI in the desktop. On the mobile-computing side, Intel will offer Mobile Pentium III processors with 0.18-micron technology in the second half of the year. The company plans to release 400MHz Mobile Celeron processors at about the same time, he said. Gelsinger also discussed two new technologies he said will increase the convenience and performance of mobile computing. Bluetooth technology is an infrared wireless connectivity solution which allows 720-Kbps data communication between PCs, cell phones and other devices, and a network. The first Bluetooth products will be available later this year in certain cell phones, Gelsinger said. However, he expects PC add-on cards to be released early next year. The cards initially will cost about $20, but pricing should eventually fall to about $5, he said. Geyserville technology will allow portable PCs to dynamically switch between a high-performance mode when connected to main power and low-power mode when running off a battery, Gelsinger said. This is opposed to typical portable PCs today, which Gelsinger said is optimized to operate on battery power and thus take a hit in performance.