From Arstechnica.com

CNET news.com reports that Intel returned AMD's fire in the 'mobile' marketplace on Wednesday by announcing that it will release five new chips in July that are targeted to compete with AMD's newly announced Athlon 4 mobile chip. Intel's new chip is the PIII produced on a 0.13 micron process, and is codenamed Tualatin. It will be released at speeds of 866MHz, 933MHz, 1GHz, 1.06GHz and 1.13GHz. The chips will consume less power than current PIIIs, have a 133MHz front side bus, a 512KB Level 2 cache, and a new version of SpeedStep, a technology that adjusts processor speed dynamically to conserve power. Intel plans to launch desktop and 'Xeon' server versions of Tualatin after the release of the mobile version of the chip, much like AMD. Intel plans to eventually move all of its chips to the .13 micron process. The desktop P4, for instance, is expect to make the switch in Q4 2001.

Here's the full story: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5950765.html

The real question is, will AMD have anything faster than 1 gig in July?

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Manu Narayan

another question - $$

aren't the amd's cheaper than comparable pIII's ?



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No Joke

Well...

Everyone thought intel would introduce the 1.7 gig P4 at 700 something dollars. They released it at 320 or somehting obscene. That was like 50 bucks more than a 1.3 Athlon (run comparable speeds). But the HUGE gap that existed is closing. Intel has the resources to undercut chips. Short run they will hurt...but long run?

Also, intel is moving to 300 mm waffers first, and .13 micron chip size. Whats that mean? Their production costs are lower. Intel has 7 'fabs' but amd has 2. Intel can retool a factory and still have 6 up and running. AMD cuts production in half to retool...

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Manu Narayan