Chip giant shifts focus to performance
Chipmaker targets rival Transmeta's Crusoe
Chip will initially be used only in Sun Blade 1000 workstations
'No problems,' says head of Architecture Group
Intel has launched a replacement programme for all motherboards that use the 820 chipset with SDRAM.
Following AMD's announcement of a real 1GHz Athlon, Intel has finally levelled the processor playing field with a Pentium III running at 1000MHz.
Intel's new SpeedStep mobile processor technology makes its debut this month.
AMD has gone to 1GHz and beyond with the latest version of its flagship Athlon processor. The Intel rival has demonstrated a 1.1GHz chip at its Fab 30 manufacturing facility in Dresen, Germany.
The power of PC processors continues to race ahead as Intel announces not one, but two new chips to power PCs on into 2000.
Hot on the heels of the unveiling of Intel's 0.18 Micron technology Pentium III (Coppermine) processor, upgrade specialist Evergreen has announced that it is to launch solutions based on the technology.
A bug has been discovered in the latest version of the Intel Pentium III chip which can prevent PCs that use the processor from starting up.
Intel has scrapped the 450MHz version of its Pentium III processor, which in all probability sets the record for the quickest movement of any Intel processor from birth to banishment.
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