Pentium III For Notebooks Will Ship Soon
It won't take long anymore and Pentium II for notebooks will be old news too. The mobile Pentium III will start shipping at clock speeds from 450 to 600 MHz in the third quarter of this year. These mobile PIIIs will basically be the same as Coppermine, manufactured in .18µ-tecnology, with 256 kB on-die L2-cache, but the version running at 600 MHz will include the so called 'Geyserville'-technology, which clocks down the CPU as soon as it's running from the battery, the core-voltage will be lowered and thus the power-consumption will come down to make the battery last longer. All the new mobile-PIIIs will actually run at 100 MHz bus speed.
Intel Doesn't Give Up On The 3D-graphics Market
As if the performance of i752 wasn't sad enough, Intel will soon present i754, the AGP4x-version of i752, which will be launched together with the upcoming i820-chipset ('Camino'). The plan continues with 'Capitola' and later on 'Capitola MLK' for the 'professional/enthusiast'-segment, starting early 2000 and 'Indian Beach' for the 'performance'-segment, expected at the begin of Q2 2000. We shouldn't expect too much of it, since Intel is currently counting i752 into the 'performance'-segment too, although its performance ranges below NVIDIA's good old RIVA TNT.
