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Intel Announces Fast, Low-Powered Chip For Notebook PCs
By Dan Calloway, TheWorldJournal.com

Intel expects to launch a 1 GHz processor for notebook computers in the first half of 2001, an Intel executive announced last week at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif.

Helped by improved power-management features, the 1 GHz Mobile Pentium III will consume an average of less than 2 watts of power--enough to provide sufficient battery life for both full-featured and lightweight notebook PCs, said a principal engineer at Intel's Mobile Platforms Group.

Intel's fastest mobile Pentium III today runs at 850 MHz. About the middle of next year, Intel will begin shifting the production of its chips to a more advanced 0.13-micron manufacturing process, allowing Intel to ramp the speed of its mobile Pentium IIIs beyond 1 GHz. This was announced at a forum where the semiconductor industry lifted the lid on the latest achievements in silicon.

Intel splits the notebook market into four segments: full-featured notebooks, thin and light notebooks, mini-notebooks, and sub-notebooks such as Toshiba's Libretto.

In the next year or two, full-featured notebooks will decline in importance to account for roughly 30 percent of all portables sold, down from approximately 60 percent today. On the rise will be thin and light notebooks, which weigh around 5 pounds and typically omit a floppy drive or optical drive to reduce bulk.

Sales of mini-notebooks, meanwhile, which typically have smaller keyboards and weigh 2 to 3 pounds, may grow to account for as much as 10 percent of portables sold. Sub-notebooks will occupy perhaps 1 percent of the market as well.

© November 17, 2000

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