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To: Thai Chung who wrote (21068)	5/29/1999 7:32:00 AM
From: Allen champ	Respond to of 93625

Camino(440JX) chipset should be out by the time you read this according to Windows Magazine, June 1, 1999 Inside the Pentium III What's new in the Pentium III? The most important issue at present is speed-500MHz now, with 600MHz expected this summer. Then there's SSE, 70 new instructions intended to accelerate 3D graphics and streaming data types such as video and audio. Despite all the hype about the SSE instructions, there are few business applications that make use of them yet, except for specialized apps such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Adobe Photoshop. If more software developers opt to harness SSE, the new instructions could improve the quality of videoconferencing, speech recognition and other media-rich apps. But if software vendors' relative lack of interest in the MMX instruction set-SSE's predecessor-is any indicator, don't expect this to happen soon. Intel also claims SSE will improve Internet performance, but bandwidth, not processor power, remains the biggest bottleneck there. Since Intel didn't really improve the P6 core itself with the Pentium III, don't expect any improvement over a Pentium II-other than that afforded by clock speed-on non-SSE-enabled apps. But higher clock speed alone might not be enough to distinguish the Pentium III. For typical business applications-word processing, spreadsheets and Web surfing-300MHz is wholly sufficient. A 500MHz PC might be overkill, especially considering its cost: A 500MHz Pentium III will cost at least $2,200, while a 333MHz-class PC can be had for well under $1,000. The Pentium III's SSE instructions will be a market differentiator, becoming the key distinction between Intel's low-cost Celerons and its higher-priced offerings as the Celeron achieves higher and higher clock rates. The distinctions among Intel processors grow even murkier when you consider that hardware hackers routinely overclock their Celeron systems all the way to 500MHz (don't try this yourself!). And while Intel has demonstrated a Pentium III running at 1 gigahertz, the company has also designed the chip so that it can't be overclocked. Expect such circuitry to be built into future versions of the Celeron. But perhaps the most important new product from Intel will be its Camino (440JX) chipset-which should be out by the time you read this. The 440JX chipset will ramp up the bus speed to 133MHz and enable the use of Direct Rambus Dynamic RAM. Direct RDRAM offers impressive speed, with a peak bandwidth of 1.6GB per second compared with SDRAM's 125MBps.