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| February 26, 1999 |
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By Tom Dunlap
February 26, 1999
C/Net
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The AMD K6 family of desktop processors
outsold all Intel-based desktop PCs in the U.S. retail
market for the first time, according to PC Data's January
Retail Hardware Report. AMD'S K6 line accounted for
43.9 percent of all desktop PC processor unit sales in
January. AMD benefited from a strong demand for
sub-$1,000 PCs, which made up more than 65 percent of the
market in January, the first time this price segment has
exceeded 60 percent of overall unit sales.
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February 25, 1999
SiliconValley.com
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The Center for Democracy in Technology,
a civil liberties group, said Friday it plans to file a
complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission charging
that the release of a new computer chip by Intel Corp .
constitutes unfair and deceptive trade practices. Personal
computer makers around the world today are shipping PCs
with Intel's new Pentium III processor, which has a
controversial security feature called a Processor Serial
Number (PSN), which acts as a unique identifier of every
PC.
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By Guy Middleton
February 25, 1999
Network Week
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Hackers can easily activate the unique
ID at the heart of every Pentium III chip -- without
alerting users, a German processor expert said on
Thursday. This countered Intel's promise that the ID,
which prompted concern amongst privacy campaigners, would
only be readable if users activated it.
Intel had already backed down from its original plan
to ship the chip with the serial number defaulted to
"on."
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By Brooke Crothers and Stephanie Miles
February 25, 1999
C/Net
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Some PC makers will ship computers with
a more secure method of turning the Pentium III ID
feature off, as this explosive issue comes to a head when
PC shipments begin tomorrow. There has been a growing
din of protest from users and civil liberties groups
centered on privacy concerns about this ID feature,
casting a pall over the kickoff of Pentium III PC sales.
The Washington-based Center for Democracy and Technology
(CDT) said it would file a complaint Friday with the
Federal Trade Commission asking the commission to
investigate the ID technology.
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By Craig Matsumoto
February 25, 1999
EE Times
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Trident Microsystems Inc. is tackling
the integration of graphics and core logic in notebook
systems with CyberBlade i7, a solution aimed at low-cost
notebooks. The CyberBlade i7 chip is the notebook
equivalent to the Apollo MVP4 chip set being sold by
core-logic vendor Via Technologies Inc. Both are Socket 7
and Super7-compatible parts designed jointly by Trident
and Via; the MVP4 chip set is targeted at desktop
systems.
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By Michael Kanellos
February 25, 1999
C/Net
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Intel will start marketing Celeron
chips--currently being used inside desktop PCs--to
industrial monitoring devices, oil derrick equipment, ATM
machines, and other "embedded" applications, an
effort that could open new revenue opportunities for the
company. "The uptake of PC technology into these
spaces is much more rapid than anyone could have
predicted in the past," said Ron Smith, vice
president of the Computer Enhancement Group at Intel.
"We're very serious about going after it."
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The
case against Intel
New filings: Documents show how FTC
will proceed in hearing and broader probe.
By Tom Quinlan
February 26, 1999
San Jose Mercury News
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With the filing of a new round of
documents, it is now much clearer what evidence will be
part of the upcoming Intel Corp. antitrust hearing -- and
what will be left for a broader ongoing probe. Intel
and the Federal Trade Commission filed legal papers
Thursday outlining their planned strategies. Those
filings remain under seal, but interviews and supporting
documents indicate that the FTC will seek to introduce
evidence of alleged anticompetitive behavior inside and
outside the microprocessor market to bolster its case.
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By George Leopold
February 25, 1999
EE Times
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The combatants in the government's
antitrust case against Intel Corp. are revving up their
public-relations machines as they prepare for the start
of a landmark Federal Trade Commission hearing next
month. Of those with the most at stake in the outcome
of the Intel case is workstation vendor Intergraph Corp.
and its down-home chairman Jim Meadlock. Meadlock, a
government witness in the antitrust case, is also
battling Intel in a federal court back in Alabama over
Intel's alleged infringement of its cache-management
patent.
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By Stephen Shankland
February 25, 1999
C/Net
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Intel and STMicroelectronics called an
end to the years-old legal battle between the two chip
manufacturers. The two companies announced a broad,
five-year patent cross-licensing deal today, meaning that
each company doesn't have to worry about the possibility
of infringing on the other company's patents. The
lawsuits between the two companies will be dismissed, the
companies said.
The agreement opens the way for STMicroelectronics to
build products for smaller or start-up companies working
on Intel-compatible chips, according to Dean McCarron, an
analyst with Mercury Research, who noted that
STMicroelectronics may have a tie-in with Transmeta, a
Silicon Valley company with patents for a chip-software
system that could emulate processors made by Intel as
well as other companies.
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By David Lammers
February 25, 1999
EE Times
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Rambus Inc. announced a mobile version
of its technology at the Intel Developers Forum this
week, and Intel executives said they expect the Rambus
DRAMs to show up in notebook computers in mid-2000. The
Rambus DRAMs operate at higher frequencies, with smaller
voltage swings, than any other main memory used to date;
the Direct Rambus parts oscillate at up to 400 MHz and
read data from the rising and falling edges of the clock,
sending data at high speeds over a relatively narrow,
16-bit "channel."
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By Rick Boyd-Merritt
February 25, 1999
EE Times
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Peace is breaking out in the PC bus
wars. Members of the Intel-led NGIO Forum and of the
competing Future I/O group met privately at the Intel
Developer Forum this week and made progress toward
merging what have been two separate and contentious
efforts to define a channel-based I/O architecture for
tomorrow's PC servers. "We are making progress on
a number of fronts," said Tom Bradicich, director of
server architecture and technology for the PC group of
IBM, a backer with Compaq and Hewlett-Packard of Future
I/O. "We haven't agreed on every detail and it's
still possible an agreement might not happen."
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By David Lieberman
February 25, 1999
EE Times
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The PC world declared war on analog this
week at the Intel Developers Forum, as the Digital
Display Working Group (DDWG) presented a soup-to-nuts
digital-interface specification for monitors, along with
early flat-panel implementations and even a compliant
digital-input CRT. Vendors demonstrated six flat-panel
monitors with the new interface on board at the working
group's technology showcase. And at an Intel
"fashion show" of small form-factor computers,
all of the exhibited machines' motherboards had DDWG's
built-in digital video interface (DVI).
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By Mike Magee
February 26, 1999
The Register
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Informed sources told The Register
yesterday evening that Intel has serious concerns about
potential challenges from Compaq's Alpha platform. The
source used to work for Digital but was one of the bodies
exchanged as part of the deal brokered by the US Federal
Trade Commission (FTC).
She said: "Alpha will give Intel's high-end
systems a run for its money because Compaq is committed
to using the chip in its highest end servers."
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By Mike Magee
February 25, 1999
The Register
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Jerry Sanders III, the CEO of AMD, said
at a conference a few years "only real men have
fabs". He was referring in that case to Cyrix,
now a subsidiary of NatSemi.
But in his keynote speech at the Forum this morning,
Mark Christiansen, a VP of the networks communication
group at Intel US, seemed to hint that maybe being
fabless is better.
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February 26, 1999
ZD Net News
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According to a new study from technology
analyst PC Data, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has for the
first time surpassed chip giant Intel Corp. as the most
popular processor manufacturer in the retail market. PC
Data's study shows that systems based on AMD's K6
processor family accounted for 43.9 percent of unit sales
in January, with Intel-based systems accounting for 40.3
percent of sales.
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February 25, 1999
SiliconValley.com
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Intel, the world's largest computer
chipmaker, is facing criticism from an Internet civil
liberties group over privacy protection in the company's
latest Pentium computer processors. The Center for
Democracy and Technology is complaining about a
technology in the Pentium III chips that computer makers
planned to begin selling today.
The nonprofit group, based in Washington, alleges
unfair and deceptive trade practices and wants the
Federal Trade Commission to investigate.
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By Mary Lisbeth D'Amico
February 25, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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A hardware editor at a German technology
magazine on Thursday confirmed that he has tested the
software utility program that Intel has promised will
enable users to switch the serial number function of its
Pentium III chip on and off, and found it
"shocking" how easy it was to manipulate. "It
was shocking for me to see how easily you can patch the
tool," said Andreas Stiller, hardware editor at the
Hanover-based magazine Computer Technology, known as c't.
"You can get around these security measures very
easily."
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By Reuters
February 25, 1999
SiliconValley.com
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Intel Corp. said Wednesday an alleged
flaw in its new Pentium's serial number system designed
to keep personal computers secure from interference by
''hackers'' was related to the chip's software, not any
physical problem with the chip. Intel said it is still
in talks with the German magazine, Computer Technology,
which on Tuesday alleged a flaw in the software Intel
provided for turning off the serial number, to determine
what, if anything is wrong with its system.
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By Stephanie Miles
February 24, 1999
C/Net
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The Pentium III processor can be hacked,
revealing the chip's unique identifying serial number.
Intel's response: Big deal. German technology
publication c't reported yesterday that under certain
circumstances the Pentium III's serial code can be
retrieved without the user's knowledge or approval.
Confirming that the hack is a possibility, Intel today
reiterated that it stands behind the chip and its
security feature.
Intel will launch the Pentium III this Friday, amid
much hoopla and a $300 million marketing campaign. Intel
is touting the chip's enhancements, but many analysts say
that most users will only see small improvements.
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By James Niccolai
February 24, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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Concerns over a unique serial number
that will be fused into the circuitry of every Pentium
III processor continue to plague Intel two days before
the new chip is due to hit the streets. In the latest
turn of events, a programmer at a German computer
publication, Computer Technology or c't, claimed Tuesday
to have devised a method of activating and reading the
serial number without the computer user's knowledge or
consent.
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By Robert Lemos
February 25, 1999
ZD Net News
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Intel Corp. has little intention of
backing away from plans to ship Pentium III chips with a
controversial ID tracking technology, two company
executives said. Indeed, if Intel has learned anything,
it is the value of patience.
"The issue is what will be acceptable and
when," said Paul Otellini, executive vice president
of Intel's architecture business group, in an interview
at Intel's developer forum here.
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February 25, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV
today announced a worldwide, cross-license agreement that
will allow each company to use intellectual property
covered by the other's patents. The agreement replaces
an existing license agreement originally signed between
Intel and Mostek Corp. in 1977. STMicroelectronics Inc.,
the U.S. subsidiary of Geneva-based STMicroelectronics,
acquired Mostek's rights through a series of mergers and
acquisitions.
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By Rebecca Sykes
February 25, 1999
Computer World
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. this week
announced the K6-III processor, its highest-performance
x86 chip, which is shipping with enhanced 3D technology
called 3DNow. The K6-III combines 3DNow with AMD's new
TriLevel Cache, a design that boosts the speed at which
the chip can process instructions, according to a
statement from AMD. The K6-III's combined cache size
delivers up to two-and-a-half times more total system
cache than Intel Corp.'s Pentium III, AMD maintained.
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By Mary Mosquera
February 24, 1999
TechWeb
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Intel is trying to whitewash its actions
when it denied Intergraph access to vital technical
information, the CEO of Intergraph said Wednesday. In
a federal antitrust trial scheduled to begin on March 9,
the government alleges Intel used its monopoly in
microprocessors as a club to cut off three of its
customers and potential competitors from access to
technical data they needed to develop products based on
Intel's chips.
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By James Niccolai
February 25, 1999
ComputerWorld
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Worldwide PC sales will overtake
television sales next year, driven by the availability of
low-cost computers and the popularity of the Internet,
predicted Paul Otellini, executive vice president and
general manager of the Intel Architecture Business Group,
in a speech at the Intel Developer Forum here yesterday. Last
year in Australia, Canada, Denmark and Korea, PC sales
already outnumbered sales of TV sets, he said, citing
various industry sources. Intel expects that trend to be
mirrored worldwide before the end of 2000, Otellini said.
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By Deborah Gage
February 24, 1999
PC Week Online
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Intel Corp. discussed its strategy for
the high end of the market Wednesday morning,
demonstrating new technology for high-volume servers here
at its developer forum. Intel Vice President John
Miner demonstrated a software prototype of Intel's new
NGIO (Next Generation Input/Output) architecture, an
outgrowth of its Virtual Interface architecture
demonstrated in September. The NGIO prototype showed
storage, LAN and communication interfaces hooked into the
same Storage Area Network -- when one storage device was
turned off, the demo continued to run.
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By Robert Lemos
February 25, 1999
PC Week UK
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Chip giant Intel Corp. rolled out about
a dozen "concept PCs" from various industrial
design firms and PC makers that emphasised style as well
as substance. Intel called it the first PC fashion show. "The
whole idea of this show is to get feedback on what people
like," said Pat Gelsinger, vice president and
general manager of Intel's desktop products group.
Gelsinger spoke at the semi-annual Intel Developers Forum
at Palm Springs, California.
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By Michael Kanellos
February 24, 1999
C/Net
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A host of Intel technological
improvements will boost PC notebook performance to a
level on par with mainstream desktops this year as
notebooks will begin to play a larger role in the
company's destiny. "This year, we will have
notebooks running at least 600 Mhz or higher in the
maximum performance mode," said Robert Jecmen, vice
president of the Intel mobile and handheld product group,
during his keynote at the company's developer conference
here today. "We expect to deliver near desktop
performance by the end of the year for the first
time."
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By Marcia Savage
February 24, 1999
Computer Reseller News
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Intel Corp. Wednesday offered details on
a new technology it said will narrow the gap between
notebook and desktop performance and enable notebooks to
reach clock speeds of 600MHz or greater by the end of
this year. At the Intel Developer Forum here, Robert
Jecmen, vice president of Intel's architecture business
group, said Intel's dual-mode mobile technology,
code-named Geyserville, will allow mobile systems to
reach a high level of performance without sacrificing
battery life.
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By David Lammers
February 24, 1999
EE Times
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Intel Corp. has pushed back the official
launch date for Rambus-based desktop systems to
September, or about three months later than originally
planned. But company executives at the Intel Developer
Forum steadfastly denied that Intel would cave in and
support an interim PC133 memory architecture. Confirming
reports that had been swirling for weeks, Pat Gelsinger,
an Intel vice president and general manager of the
company's desktop operation, said Intel was "not
ready for volume production" of full-speed 800-MHz
Rambus systems incorporating a 133-MHz system bus.
Gelsinger put a portion of blame on memory module makers.
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By Terho Uimonen and James Niccolai
February 25, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel's decision to delay the
introduction of its first chip set with support for
Rambus' high-speed memory interface technology may have
opened a window of opportunity for other new memory
technologies. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant
has been forced to delay the introduction of the chip set
until late in the third quarter, an Intel spokesman said
Wednesday. Intel originally was scheduled to introduce
the long-awaited 820 chip set, code-named Camino, by
mid-year.
In reality, the delay means the Rambus technology will
not show up in systems until the fourth quarter, industry
sources said.
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By Mike Magee
February 25, 1999
The Register
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Intel customers, including Compaq, will
introduce eight-way SMP systems in April, the company
confirmed today. John Miner, senior executive of the
server group at Intel US, claimed that 3.5 million
"real servers" shipped in 1998, worldwide.
The growth rate for SMP systems, from two-way to
eight-way, showed that CAGR for Intel was 38 per cent and
only two per cent for non-Intel vendors.
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By Mark Hachman
February 24, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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At its Developers' Forum today, Intel
Corp. disclosed more details about Merced, its
forthcoming 64-bit microprocessor. According to Intel
executives, Merced remains on track to sample by the
middle of this year, and is scheduled to reach volume
production by 2000.
"We will ship more Merceds in the first year of
production than all the other [64-bit] RISC guys
combined," but excluding 32-bit RISC processors such
as the PowerPC included in Apple Computer's Macintosh,
said Ron Curry, director of marketing at Intel's
Microprocessor Products Group in Santa Clara, Calif.
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By Michael Kanellos
February 24, 1999
C/Net
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Although Intel is busy developing
silicon for its upcoming NGIO server architecture,
company executives said that the chipmaker is working
with the rival Future I/O group on a compromise. Compromise
between the NGIO and Future I/O camps could defuse a
simmering controversy in the server world.
The two groups essentially are vying to establish the
input-output architecture for future Intel-based servers.
The Future I/O group, led by IBM, Compaq Computer and
Hewlett-Packard, want to have a larger say and greater
control in the standards-setting process, the companies
have said. By doing so, they believe they will be able to
differentiate their products more easily from companies
such as Dell Computer that invest less in research.
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By Rick Boyd-Merritt
February 24, 1999
EE Times
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Intel Corp. sent the world of PC
peripheral interfaces spinning Tuesday (Feb. 23) when it
announced it was working on a version the Universal
Serial Bus that could run faster than 200 Mbits/second
and on a future rev of the ATA-66 interface that could
act as a Gbit/second serial link. The work could
effectively squeeze 1394, once groomed as a primary
interface for future desktops, into a niche role in
tomorrow's PCs. Work on the so-called USB 2.0 and
Future ATA links has been going on for several months
before the two projects were publicly announced at the
Intel Developers Forum here by Patrick Gelsinger, general
manager of Intel's desktop division. Gelsinger said 1394
may become a "niche" technology in tomorrow's
PCs, confined to a role as a link to consumer electronics
devices.
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By Mike Magee
February 25, 1999
The Register
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A keynote speech by a senior executive
at the Intel Developer Forum in Palm Springs this morning
was received by delegates with hisses and boos. Carl
Stork, a senior hardware exec at Microsoft, was outlining
Microsoft's plans for the Windows 2000 platform, only six
months after the software company told the same delegates
the final beta of Windows NT would arrive by Thanksgiving
Day 1998 (see MS under real pressure now to finish beta
by Thanksgiving and MS promises NT 5 in 1999).
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By Mike Magee
February 24, 1999
The Register
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A senior VP on the architecture front
told The Register that Linus Torvalds, who now works for
Transmeta, has worked for them in the past. But not
only that. According to the source, Intel has already
booted the Linux operating system on a gate level.
"We're very far along with the Linux discussions.
There are very few people, however, who are export enough
to port it."
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By John Lettice
February 25, 1999
The Register
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Russian microprocessor design company
Elbrus International today announced details of E2k, a
CPU it claims will run three to five times faster than
Merced - and there may, or may not, be a Transmeta
connection. Elbrus is the cash-strapped spin-off of
the Soviet military and space supercomputer programmes,
and the fact that today's press release is tagged on the
web site "Investor Teaser for Elbrus" makes it
fairly clear that we're not at prototyping stage yet. Nor
are we going to get there unless some Western money goes
into the project.
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By Mike Magee
February 25, 1999
The Register
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Senior executives at the Intel
Corporation talked about products which will arrive in
Autumn using Pentium III technology which will
dramatically increase power performance. According to
the Intel source, the combination of 0.18 micron
technology, Streaming SIMD extensions in the PIII and
Geyserville technology will make mobile machines much
better.
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By Matt Hines
February 24, 1999
Newsbytes
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Intel Corp. [NASDAQ:INTC] is now denying
a flaw exists in a security feature built into its new
Pentium III microprocessors. A story in German magazine
Computer Technology had claimed a hacker could possibly
break into the PIII's serial number controls and disable
the feature. However, Intel officials said today they
have always been aware of the possibility that someone
could bypass the software which enables the tool.
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By Reuters
February 25, 1999
SiliconValley.com
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The long-persistent gap between the
performance of laptop computers and desktop PCs may be
closing. Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, on
Wednesday unveiled a technology dubbed ``Geyserville''
that enables a laptop to work as fast as most desktops
when the mobile unit is plugged into an electrical
output. When the power cord of a laptop is detached, the
technology slows the microprocessor -- the brains of PCs
-- to speeds found in most conventional mobile computers.
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By Mark Hachman
February 25, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Intel Corp. formally announced its
low-power “Geyserville” technology yesterday, a
technique that will be first applied to its
microprocessors to extend the battery life of mobile PCs. First
disclosed to OEMs last year, the Geyserville technology
allows notebook PCs powered by an AC power outlet to run
at full speed, then automatically drop down to a slower
speed when operating on the notebook's battery. The
Geyserville technology drops the microprocessor's
operating voltage as well, consuming less power and
allowing a PC user to work longer on a single charge.
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By John G. Spooner
February 24, 1999
PC Week Online
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Intel Corp.'s mobile processor lineup
has come a long way since early 1998 when the 266MHz
Pentium Processor with MMX Technology was released. Its
366MHz mobile Pentium II is now powering high-end
notebooks. But with OEMs preparing to ship new 500MHz
Pentium III chips in desktop systems next week, what's a
mobile user to do to close the gap? Intel has a few
ideas.
At its developer forum here, the company shed light on
how it intends to close the performance gap for good.
Intel's answer to the challenge of increasing performance
while maintaining decent battery life is Geyserville,
said Robert Jecman, vice president and general manager of
Intel's mobile and handheld products group, in his
keynote Wednesday morning.
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By James Niccolai
February 25, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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As expected, Intel demonstrated a new
mobile processor technology here Wednesday that it said
will allow notebook performance to almost match that of
desktop PCs before the end of the year. The new
technology, code-named Geyserville, allows a chip to
operate in two modes -- a high-performance mode and a
battery-optimized mode.
When a notebook is plugged into a main power outlet,
the processor runs at its maximum clock speed. When the
notebook is unplugged, Geyserville allows the chip to
automatically drop to a lower frequency mode, preserving
battery life. Power consumption has been one of the chief
inhibitors of faster clock speeds in notebook computers.
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By Marcia Savage
February 24, 1999
Computer Reseller News
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Direct RDRAM will take longer to arrive
in systems than originally planned, Intel Corp.
executives said. In his keynote address Tuesday,
Patrick Gelsinger, vice president and general manager of
Intel's desktop products group, said the new memory
technology is somewhat delayed.
Intel had planned to launch a chipset in mid 1999,
code named Camino, which would support Direct RDRAM,
4xAGP (Advanced Graphics Port), and a faster, 133MHz
system bus, sources said.
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By Andrew MacLellan
February 25, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Confirming earlier published reports,
Intel Corp. said today it will delay until the second
half of 1999 the introduction of a chip set designed to
support emerging Direct Rambus DRAM. The Camino chip
set, known formally as the Intel 820, was scheduled to
roll out in June but instead will be pushed back until
late in the third quarter, executives confirmed here at
this week's Intel Developers' Forum (IDF).
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By Stephanie Miles
February 23, 1999
C/Net
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Intel might just be wishing that it had
never included the security feature in the Pentium III. In
the latest installment in the Pentium III saga, a German
publication says it has developed a software program
capable of reading the processor's serial code without a
user's knowledge.
C't, a German technology magazine, reported that one
of its engineers was able to write a program which
accessed the serial code embedded in the chip without
alerting the user, despite Intel's assurances that the
code can only be read with a user's agreement.
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By Brett Glass
February 23, 1999
ZD Net News
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Within 24 hours of the start of Intel's
Palm Springs technical conference on the Pentium III, a
programmer claims to have discovered a way to turn the
chip's identification feature on and off at will via
software. If true, the demonstration suggests that
Intel Corp.'s (Nasdaq:INTC) claim that the ID tracking
technology in the chip can be turned off using special
software is suspect.
Downloaded knowingly or unknowingly to a user's
computer, a software program with the ability to turn the
chip's tracking technology back on would be able to
broadcast your identity to sites on the Internet.
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By Dick Satran
February 24, 1999
SiliconValley.com
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A German computer magazine Tuesday
reported it found a flaw in the product serial number
system of Intel Corp.'s new Pentium chips, and Intel said
it was looking into the report. The Pentium III chips
are set for commercial release later this week, but some
have already worked their way into distribution channels.
It was not clear how the magazine, Computer Technology,
or c/t, obtained its version of the new Pentium.
``Our people in Europe have talked to them but so far
we are not sure what they have shown or not shown,'' said
Intel spokesman Tom Waldrop.
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By John G. Spooner
February 24, 1999
PC Week Online
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IT managers looking to combine Intel
Corp.'s new Pentium III chips, set to ship on Monday,
with the company's next-generation chip set are going to
have to wait a little longer. The chip set, code-named
Camino and known as the Intel 820, was supposed to ship
in June, but Intel has pushed back its release until
September. The 820 supports a 133MHz system bus, 4X AGP
and new Rambus Direct RAM. It is Rambus that has tripped
up the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. here
introduced the AMD-K6-III processor with 3DNow!
technology, announcing volume shipments of the 400-MHz
K6-III chip and sampling of the 450-MHz version to OEM
customers Getting a jump on Intel Corp., which
announces its competing Pentium III next week, AMD
claimed the K6-III outperforms the Pentium III by more
than one speed grade on leading business and consumer
applications, according to the Ziff-Davis Winstone 99
benchmark.
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By Mike Magee
February 24, 1999
The Register
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Senior Intel VP Paul Otellini today put
flesh on the bones of its new motherboard design and said
the Pentium III will have a new socket design shortly
(see Intel Flex ATX motherboard to use 810 chipset). In
an interview with The Register, Otellini said: "We
will have small form factor Pentium III products and most
will ship with some kind of socket design in time for
when these machines ship. I won't commit to what kind of
socket it will have."
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February 23, 1999
InformationWeek
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Intel Tuesday disclosed multimedia
application benchmarks for its Pentium III processor,
which is due to ship Friday. Comparing a 450-MHz Pentium
III with a 450-MHz Pentium II, the new chip ran Dragon
Systems' speech-recognition software 37 percent faster,
Adobe PhotoShop 64 percent faster, and NetShow video 20
percent faster. The applications were optimized for
the Pentium III, and the increased performance is
attributable to a set of 70 new multimedia instructions
in the chip. Intel senior vice president Paul Otellini
made the disclosure at the Intel Developers Forum in Palm
Springs, Calif.
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By Mark Hachman
February 24, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Intel Corp. will promote a version of
its Universal Serial Bus fortomorrow's PCs, downplaying
the IEEE 1394 standard used in consumer devices, it was
reported here yesterday at Intel's Developer Forum By
the second half of this year, Intel hopes to hammer out
the specification for USB 2.0, a technology promoted as
10 to 20 times as fast as the company's current 12-Mbit
version. First products, possibly including an
Intel-manufactured chipset, are expected in the second
half of 2000.
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By Robert Lemos
February 24, 1999
ZD Net News
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Despite Tuesday's announcement of a
Pentium III running at 1,002MHz, customers will still
have to wait until late in the year 2000 -- or even 2001
-- before they see such speeds on the desktop, according
to Intel Corp. executives. "This is not something
you are going to be able to buy," said Pat
Gelsinger, vice president and general manager of Intel's
desktop products group, during a keynote here at the
company's developer forum.
The comments came after Intel (INTC) showed off a
Pentium III processor running at 1,002MHz -- about 1GHz
-- essentially twice as fast as the current rated speed
for the chip.
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February 23, 1999
PC Week Online
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On a design level, Intel Corp. wants to
continue to evolve and enhance PC platforms while keeping
them as stable and easy to use as possible. As part of
that effort, Pat Gelsinger, vice president and general
manager of the desktop products group, said Tuesday that
Intel (Nasdaq:INTC) will not do a major revision of its
annual PC design guide in 2000. Instead, it will make
minor modifications under a guideline called PC99-A.
More details on those guidelines will be forthcoming.
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By Michael Kanellos
February 23, 1999
C/Net
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Notebooks will get faster and a lot
cheaper this year as part of Intel's effort to expand its
markets, company executives said here at the Intel
Developer Forum this morning. The company also
demonstrated a Pentium III prototype that ran at 1002
MHz, a new land speed record for processors, according to
Albert Yu, senior vice president of microprocessor
products at Intel.
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February 24, 1999
PC Week Online
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Barring further delays, Intel Corp. is
on track to launch its 64-bit Merced processor in
mid-2000. In April, Intel will host an event at which
it will deliver software development systems to ISVs, who
will use them for actual software coding, said Albert Yu,
senior vice president and general manager of Intel's
Microprocessor Products Group. Until now, ISVs and OEMs
have been working with hard-copy documentation and Merced
simulators.
Yu spoke at Intel's developer forum here on Tuesday.
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February 23, 1999
TechWeb
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Intel kicked off a developers'
conference Tuesday by saying it is shifting its product
development toward the Internet to ride an e-commerce
wave that will hit $1 trillion by 2002. "The
Internet is now the single most important growth driver
in the computer industry," said Paul Otellini,
executive vice president and general manager of the Intel
Architecture Business Group. "The Internet is as
important to Intel's future as silicon was in our
past."
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By George Leopold
February 23, 1999
EE Times
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After months of sparring with government
antitrust lawyers, Intel Corp. is beginning to mount its
public defense against charges it is a monopolist that
plays hard ball on intellectual property issues. The
Federal Trade Commission will attempt to show in a
hearing scheduled to begin on March 9 that Intel
monopolizes the microprocessor market and has used its
market power to lock in its dominance. Specifically, the
government alleges that Intel denied three customers
— Digital Equipment Corp., Compaq Computer Corp. and
Intergraph Corp. — access to technical data needed
to develop Intel-based computers.
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February 24, 1999
TechWeb
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Consumers will not benefit if the
Federal Trade Commission prevails in its antitrust case
against Intel, said a senior Intel attorney on Tuesday. An
FTC victory would mean Intel would be forced to turn over
its research information to the complaining companies,
said Peter Detkin, an Intel vice president and assistant
general counsel.
"If the government controls who has access to
research and development information, it will reduce the
incentive to innovate," he said.
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By Mary Mosquera
February 23, 1999
TechWeb
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The government and Intel have released
their lists of more than 50 witnesses, setting the scene
for a long, expansive antitrust trial beginning March 9. The
U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that Intel used its
dominance to bully three of its customers and potential
competitors. The companies were computer workstation
maker Intergraph, Digital, and Compaq, which later
acquired Digital. The agency also charges that Intel
denied access to technical information necessary to
develop products based on Intel's chips.
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February 24, 1999
The Register
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"The relationship with HP isn't the
same as it was. The bulk of the collaboration was on the
design of the architecture. "Beyond that, we're
into implementation mode and HP is now like a classic
customer.
"HP is not helping us design Merced."
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February 24, 1999
The Register
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"Willamette is on schedule. They're
exactly on schedule. They haven't changed. "I
think you're discounting how difficult it is to do 64-bit
development in conjunction with multi 32-bit
architectures.
"If we didn't have to do 64-bit architectures,
we'd have double digit extra resources to spend on
it."
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February 24, 1999
The Register
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"There is still an area of the
server market where we have a gap and Alpha occupies
that. "If Alpha is the target then that is where
we want to be.
"[To stay in this business] it costs you a couple
of million dollars a year and the cost of a fab.
"This is a bloody expensive game to play."
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February 23, 1999
C/Net
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Computers using the Rambus memory
standard and the latest version of Intel's Accelerated
Graphics Port have been delayed until late in the third
quarter, Intel said today, a delay that will temporarily
slow down parts of the Intel world. Intel Fellow Pete
MacWilliams said today that chipsets from Intel that
support high speed memory based around the Rambus design
will not be available until the late third quarter. While
Intel earlier said that Rambus chipsets would be out in
1999, its first Rambus chipset, code-named Camino, was
widely expected to come out in the middle of the year.
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Windows Magazine
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Officials at the company announced
400MHz and 450MHz versions of the processor today and
said the first K6III-based systems will be available by
the end of the month. Initial systems will be offered
through Compaq's retail build-to-order program at 400MHz,
according to an AMD presentation. Additional OEMs are
expected to offer systems based on the K6III 450MHz by
the end of March, said Steve Lapinski, director of
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The applications were optimized for the
Pentium III, and the increased performance is
attributable to a set of 70 new multimedia instructions
in the chip. Intel senior vice president Paul Otellini
made the disclosure at the Intel Developers Forum in Palm
Springs, Calif. Intel also plans to release a 500-MHz
Pentium III on Friday, a 550-MHz version in the second
quarter, and a chip that will exceed 600 MHz late this
year. Intel's clock speeds of its Xeon chip, which is
designed for high-performance workstations and servers,
should follow a similar trajectory. Intel officials also
said 400-MHz and 450-MHz notebook chips should ship
around the middle of this year.
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By Mark Hachman
February 23, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Intel Corp. today demonstrated a Pentium
II running above 1 gigahertz on the first day of its
forum for PC manufacturers and developers. Intel
executives did not say whether the Pentium II family will
eventually scale to that speed, but the chip serves to
demonstrate the pace of Intel's developments. Also at
the Intel Developers Forum, company executives confirmed
that the Intel 820 chip set has been delayed. Without
specifically commenting on the chip set itself, Pat
Gelsinger, executive vice president and general manager
of Intel's Desktop Products Group, said
"next-generation chip sets" supporting Direct
Rambus and the ATA-66 storage interface -- both features
of the Intel 820 --would be launched in the third
quarter. Intel has apparently scotched or sacrified a
version of the chip set, scheduled to be launched in
June, that would support 600-MHz Direct Rambus RDRAM.
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By Marcia Savage
February 23, 1999
Computer Reseller News
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Intel Corp. Tuesday kicked off its
developer forum here with by cranking up a Pentium III to
break the 1GHz speed barrier on a standard
microprocessor. Albert Yu, senior vice president and
general manager of Intel's microprocessor product group,
called the demonstration "a milestone" in
computing history. The chip reached a clock speed of
1,002MHz during the event.
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SiliconValley.com
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Intel Corp. said it passed a key
technology milestone Tuesday, demonstrating a speedy new
microprocessor that lets ordinary home computers easily
respond to human voices and master other advanced
features. Intel, the world's largest maker of chips for
PCs, said it will mass-produce the souped-up Pentium III
chip as the brainpower for business machines starting
late next year. Home computers running at the high speeds
are expected to go on sale in mid-2001.
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By James Niccolai
February 23, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel will detail plans to introduce a
groundbreaking processor technology here at its
Professional Developer Conference on Wednesday that will
allow it to offer 600-MHz mobile chips in the second half
of this year -- faster than its current
highest-performance desktop processors, officials said
Tuesday. The chip maker also outlined plans for faster
Celeron processors for low-cost notebooks and desktops,
and provided an update on the progress of its upcoming
64-bit Merced processor.
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By Ephraim Schwartz
February 23, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel announced this week at its
Professional Developer Conference here that it will ship
manufacturing samples of its 64-bit Merced processor by
midyear and that the processor will be in production in
mid-2000. The company also announced that it has
successfully booted seven different operating systems on
the Merced simulator, including Microsoft's 64-bit
Windows OS. Other operating systems booted include Sun's
Solaris, SCO UnixWare Monterey, Novell's Modesto, HP-UX,
plus full support for Linux.
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III: Big score... or big snore?
Big marketing and development dollars
can't hide the fact that Pentium III is not a great leap
forward.
By Robert Lemos
February 21, 1999
ZD Net News
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Intel Corp. will spend record amounts to
market its Pentium III chip, and observers say the chip
will need it. "The PIII is going to take some
selling -- it will take advertising to convince the
average Joe that PIII is better than what he already
has," said Brian Alger, an analyst at investment
firm Preferred Capital Markets.
In fact, the privacy issues raised by consumer
advocates over the chip's electronic ID could cause some
consumers to balk at buying PCs that use the chip.
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By Michael Kanellos
February 22, 1999
C/Net
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Advanced Micro Devices released the
K6-III today, a new chip that the company says rivals the
Pentium III, although observers say it may not be the
cure for all of AMD's current woes. The K6-III, which
runs at 400 Mhz and will hit 450 MHz next month, is AMD's
attempt to enter into the performance and business
computer segments, according to Dana Krelle, vice
president of marketing. AMD chips mostly come in consumer
PCs selling for less than $1,000.
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February 22, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Intel Corp. is on target for its
official launch of the PIII microprocessor, which is
scheduled to hit the market this week, according to Mike
Aymar, director of platform launch operations for the
Santa Clara, Calif., chip giant. On Friday, Intel will
formally roll out its PIII processors operating at speeds
of 450 Mhz, 500 Mhz, and 550 Mhz. Next week, the company
will introduce its PIII Xeon processors which will
operate at the same frequencies, Aymar said.
The new chips improve on the current Pentium II line,
with added features that include Internet streaming SIMD
(signal instruction multiple data) extensions. Those
include 3D processing faster image rendering, streaming
audio/video, and extensions that will enhance
speech-recognition applications.
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Volume 5, 1999
c't Magazine
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The controversial serial number of the
new Pentium III processors can be read on the quiet after
all. Contrary to Intels description so far, the system
architecture allows for individual identification by
software tricks without a users explicit allowance or
notice. Intels new technique for securing E-Commerce
transactions already caused quite a stir as the Pentium
III presentations approached. Privacy advocates expected
the readable serial number to act as a "permanent
cookie" and to produce the completely transparent
surfer. The processor manufacturer appeased with the
guarantee, the user would have full control whether he
would allow the read-out of the serial number. Once
switched off, the corresponding processor command could
not be activated until the next cold start.
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February 23, 1999
The Knights who say KNI
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using average from TSC, the latency and ranges are
indicated where known.
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By Anand Lal Shimpi
February 23, 1999
Anand Tech
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We all remember the platform shoes, and
the tacky suits on the bodies of the dancers that
dominated the dance floor, bouncing to every bump of bass
in the catchy beat of the Beegee's Stayin' Alive. No,
we're not talking about your high school dances in the
70's, rather CPU manufacturer, Intel's MMX campaign of
1997. |
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February 23, 1999
The Register
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At a technology briefing at the Intel
Developer Forum today, the company showed its FlexATX
motherboard and said it was 30 per cent smaller than the
MicroATX design. The motherboard is intended to fit
into a variety of different form factors, said Steve
Whalley, head of desktop product group initiatives in the
US.
Intel will show some prototypes of those designs
during a keynote speech tomorrow
morning. They are likely to include systems which fit
into flat screen panels as well as other machines bearing
more than a passing resemblence to the Apple iMac.
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By Dan Goodin and Michael Kanellos
February 22, 1999
C/Net
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Did Intel use monopoly power to settle
intellectual property disputes, or did it play a
legitimate game of hardball? That is the central
question in the FTC's upcoming action against the
chipmaker.
The FTC's case against Intel in many ways will boil
down to motive, FTC director William Baer said in an
interview with CNET News.com. At a hearing set to start
on March 9, the agency will try to prove that Intel
unfairly withheld products and product plans from
customers in good standing to force them to give up
intellectual property claims against the chipmaker.
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By Mary Mosquera
February 22, 1999
TechWeb
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A long list of witnesses from Intel and
the government indicates the Federal Trade Commission may
be expanding its case and Intel is stepping up to the
plate to accept the challenge. The FTC says Intel used
its monopoly in microprocessors to deny three of its
customers and potential competitors access to technical
information needed to develop products based on Intel's
chips. Intel says it was within its rights to withhold
data because of pending patent-infringement suits brought
by computer workstation maker Intergraph and Digital
Equipment -- which was later bought by Compaq.
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By Lisa DiCarlo
February 23, 1999
PC Week Online
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As expected, the Federal Trade
Commission's antitrust case against Intel Corp., which
begins March 9, will go far beyond its original scope. In
addition to the original complaint, the FTC will pursue
Intel's pricing and discount practices, its flow of
critical information to OEMs and its entry into adjacent
markets, said one deposed person who is scheduled to
testify at the hearing.
The source said that, during his deposition, FTC
investigators seemed intent on showing a pattern of
favoritism among OEM customers.
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Silicon News
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Intel's impending legal battle with the
US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will see nearly 50
witnesses take the stand. In an investigation which
bears similarity to Microsoft's lengthy duel with the
Department of Justice, the FTC is trying to establish
whether the chips giant has abused its position as the
world's foremost supplier of microprocessors for
computers.
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By Mike Magee
February 23, 1999
The Register
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In a wide-ranging presentation covering
the state of the PC market, Pat Gelsinger, senior VP of
the desktop product division of Intel US, said that his
company was focused on speed, security, simplicity and
style. The "four Ss" will be the backbone of
his keynote speech at the Forum tomorrow morning, he
said.
"We will argue that speed still matters," he
said. "There's an incredible amount of MIPS used in
business. Knowledge management will be important."
Speech recognition is only one year away, he said, while
quipping that for the last 20 years, it has been the
becoming technology that is only two years away.
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By Mike Magee
February 23, 1999
The Register
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Senior Intel VP Paul Otellini kicked off
the Intel Developer Forum this morning with claims that
the Pentium III will deliver vastly higher speeds. But
Otellini did not go into great detail, reserving real
benchmarks for the official release of the Pentium III
this coming Thursday.
Otellini said that three different software packages
showed speed boosts. Naturally
Speaking, a speech recognition app, showed a 37 per cent
performance boost, Photoshop delivered 64 per cent better
performance and Netshow Encoder is 20 per cent faster
using the Pentium III, he claimed.
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By Kristen Kenedy
February 23, 1999
Computer Retail Week
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AMD hopes to gain more ground in the
mid- to high-end desktop market with the new K6III, aimed
at PC enthusiasts and business users. Officials at the
company announced 400MHz and 450MHz versions of the
processor today and said the first K6III-based systems
will be available by the end of the month. Initial
systems will be offered through Compaq's retail
build-to-order program at 400MHz, according to an AMD
presentation. Additional OEMs are expected to offer
systems based on the K6III 450MHz by the end of March,
said Steve Lapinski, director of product marketing for
AMD's computational product group.
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February 22, 1999
San Jose Mercury News
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AFTER YEARS on the margins of the
computer industry, Packard Bell Electronics Inc. made a
bold bid in 1993 to join the top ranks. It handed control
of its technology to Intel Corp. By buying into the
chip company's Pentium initiative, Packard Bell took from
Intel everything it needed to deliver state-of-the-art
personal computers -- not just the chips Intel typically
furnished, but critical surrounding components as well.
Within two years, the company nearly doubled its market
share, trailing only PC pioneer Compaq Computer Corp. in
sales.
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By Mike Magee
February 22, 1999
The Register
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Super cooling technology will make the
AMD K6-III run at half a gigahertz, a company claimed
today. Kryotech, a US company which uses cooling
techniques, said it had managed to clock 500MHz using a
400MHz AMD K6-III chip.
And a press release from the company said that the
Pentium III, when released, will also achieve clock
speeds of around one third more.
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ZD Net UK
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It's the biggest launch in Intel
history. Intel chief Craig Barrett is, as is the wont of
Silicon Valley chief executive officers, promising
nothing less than a "revolution" in the way
computer users access the sights and sounds of the
Internet. And he's plunking down $300m (£183m) just to
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ZD Net UK
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In simple terms, Pentium III will
enhance the liveliness of the Web through: New
instruction sets that will complement the usefulness of
MMX technology - particularly the floating-point
operations that are key to the delivery of 3-D images.
Animated scenes will appear more lifelike and
environments will seem more realistic, even when smoke,
haze, cloudiness or other relatively subtle conditions
are introduced. Executives wanting to buy furniture from
a procurement application will be able to
"walk" through office suites, see chairs and
desks in realistic settings and then make a purchase with
a click.
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By Adam Lashinsky
February 22, 1999
San Jose Mercury News
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A STOCK-market shouting match is raging
over the near-term fate of Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq, RMBS),
the Mountain View-based supplier of technology that
speeds up the next generation of memory chips. Most such
snits have no obvious resolution, but this one does.
Referee Intel Corp. (Nasdaq, INTC) has its say this week. Intel
has endorsed Rambus technology, essentially mandating
that makers of memory chips for Intel-compatible personal
computers pay Rambus a royalty of 1 percent to 2.5
percent on memory revenues. That hasn't sat well with
makers of Dynamic Random Access Memory modules, or DRAMs,
most notably Micron Technology Inc. (Nasdaq, MU), the
Boise, Idaho-based DRAM leader.
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February 22, 1999
EE Times
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Hyundai Electronics will begin to ship
commercial quantities of the Direct Rambus DRAMs in May,
starting at 64-Mbit and 72-Mbit densities, and move into
full volume production by July. And following an industry
trend that seeks to spread the cost of the chip-scale
package and test over a larger memory array, Hyundai will
move to a 128/144-Mbit density by October. Mark
Ellsbery, vice president of marketing, said Hyundai is
using a 0.22-micron process to make a 64/72-Mbit part
with a die size of 70 mm2, among the smallest of the
Direct Rambus DRAMs on the market thus far. After the
128/144-Mbit part is introduced, Hyundai will come out
with a dedicated 128-Mbit part with a slightly smaller
die size.
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February 19, 1999
EE Times
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The field of organized initiatives
pursuing alternatives to the Intel-backed Rambus DRAM has
shrunk by one. A decision by the SLDRAM Inc. consortium
to wrap up its own work and throw its support behind the
emerging DDR II spec cleaves the DRAM industry into two
major camps, amassed along the boundary between desktop
and server: the Rambus approach, initially aimed at
desktop PCs, and the server-bound double-data-rate SDRAM. At
this week's International Solid-State Circuits Conference
here, a paper described a 72-Mbit SLDRAM prototype with a
bandwidth of 800 Mbytes/second-half that claimed by
Direct Rambus DRAM. The proof-of-concept device was
designed by engineers at Mosaid Technologies Inc.
(Kanata, Ont.) and fabricated at Siemens Corp.
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February 19, 1999
Semiconductor Business News
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Intel Corp.'s new Pentium III Xeon
processors will put high-end servers into the
"supercomputer" category, triggering export
restraints and creating problems for U.S. server makers
looking to sell the systems overseas. And next year,
Intel's 800-MHz Pentium III will throw desktop PCs into
the supercomputer control category as well.
Executives representing major U.S. OEMs gathered in
Washington earlier this week, warning that unilateral
U.S. export controls put domestic PC makers at a
competitive disadvantage against foreign rivals that are
able to sell leading-edge Intel-based PCs without
constraint. U.S. companies must seek export licenses to
sell supercomputer-rated PCs abroad, causing costly
paperwork and delays that foreign competitors don't face.
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By Mike Magee
February 22, 1999
The Register
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Not only has Japanese Web site Happy Cat
posted pix of the infamous K6-III, it also seems to have
quite a bit of info about i820 Camino as well as some
other Intel trinkets. The latest news we had tonight
was that Intel has slapped an injunction on the corner
shop.
Nevertheless, the site is still up and if Intel
succeeds in its task, we have taken copies. If you go
here to Happy Cat and scroll down the page, you'll see
some pix labelled Intel SECRET.
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By Mark Hachman
February 22, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Intel Corp. offered a glimpse of the
future last night, demonstratingits first microprocessor
running on its 0.18-micron manufacturingprocess. At an
evening session prior to the Mobile Insights '99
conference, Frank Spindler, both vice-president of
Intel's Architecture Business Group and director of
marketing responsible for mobile and handheld products,
gave his talk using a notebook equipped with a mobile
Pentium II processor running in excess of 400 MHz.
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By Jim Davis
February 19, 1999
C/Net
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In a major win for Advanced Micro
Devices, PC maker Gateway said it will use AMD's chips in
upcoming systems in addition to processors from Intel. Gateway
said the move would help it offer affordable computers to
its customers.
"Both Intel and AMD offer a broad range of high
quality and competitively priced product lines,"
said Jim Booth, Gateway's vice president of Global
Materials and Supply Management in a prepared statement.
"We made the decision to take advantage of AMD's
offerings to add flexibility to our product line and to
give our clients choices."
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By John G. Spooner
February 19, 1999
ZD Net News
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When Intel Corp. begins shipping its
Pentium III processor next week, it will face renewed
competition from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which plans
to announce its K6-III processor on Monday. The AMD
(AMD) chip has a new three-level cache design, which
integrates 256KB of Level 2 cache and includes an
additional external 512KB of Level 3 cache, both of which
increase performance. The chip will support up to 2MB of
Level 3 cache.
The 400MHz K6-III, priced at $284, will begin shipping
this month. A 450MHz version, priced at $476, will be
available next month, said AMD officials. Also due this
month is a 450MHz K6-2 chip; the Sunnyvale, Calif.,
company's next-generation K-7 chip is slated for release
at the end of the second quarter.
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By Robert Lemos
February 22, 1999
ZD Net UK
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Why is Intel charging corporate prices
for a chip whose main draw is for consumers? Intel
Corp.'s newest chip, the Pentium III, boasts fast new
multimedia instructions and memory enhancements that make
the latest consumer applications -- such as DVD playback
in software, 3-D games, and surround sound audio -- a
snap.
But the chip will cost, to start, probably in the $500
(£305) range, much too expensive to be used in low-end
PCs. Intel's low-end chip, the Celeron, won't get the
special instructions until 2000.
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By Kurt Oeler
February 20, 1999
C/Net
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Intel debuted its newest mid-range
processor, the Pentium III, a little more than a week
before desktops incorporating the chip are to appear on
the market. 450-Mhz and 500-Mhz "PIII" systems
will be available for under $2,000, the company said at a
media event. The Pentium III is said to boost Internet
multimedia--but some observers have wondered if the
upgrade is all that important. "It's not like the
jump from Pentium MMX to Pentium II," one said.
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By Lisa M. Bowman
February 22, 1999
ZD Net UK
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When Intel Corp. begins shipping its
Pentium III processor this week, it will face renewed
competition from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which will
announce its K6-III processor today. The AMD chip has
a new three-level cache design, which integrates 256KB of
Level 2 cache and includes an additional external 512KB
of Level 3 cache, both of which increase performance. The
chip will support up to 2MB of Level 3 cache.
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By Michael Kanellos
February 19, 1999
C/Net
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About 50 witnesses will appear in the
action brought by the Federal Trade Commission against
Intel, including Intel's Andy Grove and Craig Barrett,
former Digital CEO Robert Palmer, AltaVista CEO Rod
Schrock, high-level executives from AMD and other Intel
competitors, and a host of experts. The proceeding,
which begins on March 9, is now expected to last
approximately two to three months, according to sources,
beyond the six- to eight-week estimate floated earlier.
Although the witnesses list will be lengthy, the trial
will not likely contain evidentiary bombshells, predicted
Peter Detkin, general counsel for Intel.
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By Mike Magee
February 21, 1999
The Register
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JC, over at JC's pages seems to have
winkled out a statement from AMD about its stance on
security ID numbers. As far as we at The Register are
aware, this is the first time AMD has spoken out about
Intel's plans for serial numbers on the Pentium III.
On the AMD Web pages, the company says: "We
certainly understand the motivation for improving
security for web-based transactions and E-commerce.
However, we are concerned about the potential of
compromising the privacy of the individual. We are
evaluating the alternatives for addressing this
issue."
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