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Intel Intros New Mobile PIII Chips

Santa Clara, Calif. – Intel today expanded its line of mobile processors with faster, more energy efficient Pentium III chips, while rival AMD started shipping a 1.1GHz Duron processor.

With these introductions Intel now offers a 1.2GHz processor for use in larger, five pounds and up, notebooks. For mini notebooks, three to five pounds, an 800MHz chip is now available and a 700MHz processor has been developed for ultra small notebooks and tablet computers. The basic chip architecture for the 1.2GHz and 800MHz chips has undergone a major upgrade. These improvements include using .13 micron technology in a mobile processor for the first time, placing 802.11b, Bluetooth wireless technology onto the motherboard and increasing the chips USB capabilities. Other changes are addition of a 512k cache and enhanced SpeedStep battery conservation technology.

The processor now lowers the power usage down for extremely small periods of time periods, such as between keystrokes, in order to extend battery life.
The 1.2GHz chips will cost $772 in lots of 1,000, the 800MHz models $312 and the 700MHz processors $209.

AMD’s new Duron, which competes against Intel’s Celeron family of processors for space in entry-level PCs, will sell for $103 in lots of 1,000. According to printed reports, AMD will follow this with the shipment of the Athlon XP, a high-end chip for use in PC running Microsoft’s Windows XP.

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