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February 18, 1999
InternetWeek
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Intel's business partners defended the
chip maker's plans to embed a serial number in the new
Pentium III processor, saying it's a valuable tool for
corporate asset-tracking and authenticating users in
business transactions. Passwords can be compromised,
and mechanisms such as cookies and digital certificates
can be copied or accidentally erased from a hard disk.
But the chip serial number is an indelible part of the
chip, and -- when used in conjunction with other
authentication mechanisms -- can provide a reliable
mechanism for ensuring a user is who he or she claims to
be, said David Pedigo, senior manager of the Sabre Group,
at Intel's launch of the Pentium III processor in San
Jose, Calif., Wednesday.
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By Mike Magee
February 19, 1999
The Register
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Reports from our friends in Japan claim
that Intel will perform a somersault on its position on
PC133 memory because of difficulties over yields on
Rambus memories. Our friends in Japan are generally
reliable. They tipped us off about the K6-3 being called
the K6-III, remember?
That news will cause sighs of relief from the rest of
the industry, although we can expect to hear low moans
from AMD and Cyrix, resolutely tracing Intel's footsteps
in the PR snow.
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By Mark LaPedus
February 18, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Continuing its
quest to integrate broadband communications in the PC
architecture, Intel Corp. is in talks
with Libit Signal Processing Ltd. about co-developing a
line of host-based cable-modem chip sets.
The chip sets to be developed would be integrated into
the PC and driven by the system's microprocessor, thereby
eliminating the need
for a stand-alone modem. Current stand-alone cable modems
include an internal processor to boost performance,
namely a RISC chip
from Hitachi Ltd., IBM Corp.'s Microelectronics Division,
or another supplier.
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By George Leopold
February 18, 1999
EE Times
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Washington — Intel Corp. has
complied with a government request to turn over financial
data on microprocessor pricing in pre-hearing sparring in
the upcoming antitrust case. The Federal Trade
Commission said Wednesday that Intel has provided FTC
lawyers with "financial models relating to the
pricing and market positioning of microprocessors."
Intel turned over the data despite arguing that it did
not fall within the guidelines of the government's
initial request for evidence.
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By Michael Kanellos
February 18, 1999
C/Net
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Intel said it will spend approximately
$300 million to promote the Pentium III processor in 1999
in the biggest advertising campaign in the company's
history, but the promotional onslaught is actually much
costlier than that. In addition to the ad campaign,
Intel is aggressively working with hardware makers,
software publishers, and content providers to ensure that
applications and services that take advantage of the
processor's multimedia enhancements come out sooner
rather than later.
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By Mike Magee
February 19, 1999
The Register
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Pictures of engineering samples of the
AMD K6-III have been posted on the Web, with some
benchmarks to boot. But the samples shown at Happy Cat
pose questions about the core voltages of the parts.
AMD is still seeking to spoil Intel's game after the
Goliath held its preview day earlier this week, pulling
in every human being and dog to the party.
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By Martha Mendoza
February 18, 1999
SiliconValley.com
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Intel Corp. is showcasing more than 200
new games, business systems and Internet sites to promote
its controversial new computer chip that has been drawing
criticism for its ability to send the serial number of an
individual computer through the World Wide Web. Reporters
and industry analysts gathered in San Jose Wednesday to
preview software and other products designed for Intel
Corp.'s Pentium III microprocessor, available in personal
computers at the end of the month.
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By Matt Hines
February 17, 1999
Newsbytes
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Despite both criticism and ongoing
boycotts from a number of special interest groups, Intel
Corp. [NASDAQ:INTC] said it will continue to push
security technologies buried inside the new processors it
ships to PC manufacturers. The microprocessor giant
first unveiled plans to create a unique numerical
footprint for each of its new Pentium III chips last
month. Intel said it designed the identification
technology so users could be protected with increased
security while using electronic commerce applications.
With the system, a Web site would create a special
interface to read a chip's ID, which cannot be
duplicated.
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By Scott Tiazkun
February 17, 1999
Computer Reseller News
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Computer Associates International on
Tuesday announced plans to deliver a network-management
tool kit that will take advantage of a new and
controversial
technology in Intel's new Pentium III processor.CA
officials said its network-management framework,
Unicenter TNG, will support Intel's Processor Serial
Number (PSN) initiative.
The serial-number technology that Santa Clara,
Calif.-based Intel is introducing with its new Pentium
III processor recently had some privacy groups up in
arms.
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By Leander Kahney
February 17, 1999
Wired
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Intel's Preview Day for its new Pentium
III chip on Wednesday resembled an Apple product launch
with lots of sound and music but without the panache,
humor, or excitement. Staged for the benefit of about
320 members of the technology press and twice as many
resellers and other partners, the preview kick starts a
massive US$300 million worldwide marketing campaign, the
biggest in the company's history.
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By Tony Smith
February 18, 1999
The Register
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National Semiconductor's Cyrix
subsidiary yesterday said it had licensed Rambus' Direct
DRAM memory interface, and that it planned to support the
technology in upcoming system-on-a-chip products. Cyrix
executive VP Jean-Louis Bories said the decision to
license Rambus memory technology was prompted by the
bandwidth requirements of the company's high-speed
x86-compatible CPUs.
"As our integrated processors approach speeds of
1GHz, high memory bandwidth and low latency become ever
more critical to achieving the optimum balance of
performance and cost," he said.
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By James Niccolai
February 17, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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At a preview event here to help launch
its upcoming Pentium III processor, Intel was joined by a
legion of software, hardware, and content providers that
have optimized products to take advantage of enhanced
multimedia capabilities in the new chip. Software
makers Lotus, Microsoft, and Lernout & Hauspie, PC
manufacturer Compaq, and content providers Bloomberg and
Excite were among more than 200 companies on hand to help
Intel plug its new chip.
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By Bob Bellinger
February 17, 1999
EE Times
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Already active in a number of education
initiatives, Intel Corp. is launching an aggressive
campaign to educate kids about technology during National
Engineers Week (2/22-2/26). Last year, Intel sent
nearly 1,400 volunteer employees into 2,000 classrooms
around the country to talk with students from
kindergarten through high school. This year Intel is
raising the bar, sending out fab engineers, software
gurus and top managers, such as Mike Splinter, senior
vice president and general manager of the Technology and
Manufacturing Group.
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By Michael Kanellos
February 17, 1999
C/Net
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Intel's Pentium III aims to make
Internet multimedia richer and faster, but the price
won't be as bad as you'd think. Officially going on
sale February 26, the chip will "bring a brand-new
user experience" to computing by improving the way
3D and video content is viewed on the Web, Intel CEO
Craig Barrett said today at a press conference. Voice
recognition will also improve, according to the company,
as the processor contains 70 new instructions that
enhance multimedia processing and video streaming.
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By Jim Davis
February 18, 1999
C/Net
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The PC industry seems to have been
underwhelmed by Intel's upcoming Pentium III chip, but a
company called Integrated Telecom Express hopes next
week's rollout will highlight its technology for reducing
the cost of digital subscriber line (DSL) modems. Yesterday
at the Intel media event in San Jose, Integrated Telecom
Express (Itex) took occasion to show off a
"host-based" DSL modem that can download data
at speeds reaching 1.5 mbps (megabits per second) and
send data at a rate of 512 kbps (kilobits per second).
Both speeds are many times quicker than current dial-up
modems.
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By Brian Fuller
February 18, 1999
EE Times
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Tester and packaging problems are
squeezing the availability of new Direct Rambus DRAM
chips, and the issue could delay a robust ramp for the
devices until next year, a high-ranking Fujitsu memory
executive said this week. Masao Taguchi, deputy
general manager of Fujitsu's DRAM division, in Kawasaki,
Japan, said in an interview tight supplies of Micro-BGA
packages and of high-end testers for the fast memories is
limiting the company's Direct Rambus production.
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By Tony Smith
February 18, 1999
The Register
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Hyundai Electronics VP of marketing Mark
Ellsbery yesterday added his voice to the chorus of
memory producers and chip-set vendors predicting limited
availability of Rambus Direct DRAM throughout the year. "There
will be a shortage of RDRAMs in 1999," he said,
words that echo the warning given on Tuesday by the head
of Fujitsu's semiconductor division, Masao Taguchi (see
earlier story).
Said Taguchi: "1999 is not going to be a Direct
Rambus year."
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By Rick Boyd-Merritt
February 18, 1999
EE Times
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The Future I/O initiative from Compaq,
IBM and Hewlett-Packard got a shot in the arm last week
as the group staged its first developer's meeting here
for its I/O technology aimed at high-end servers.
Designers from as many as 60 companies signed agreements
to participate in the definition of the standard from a
crowd of more than 220 engineers who attended the two-day
meeting. The group also provided some fresh details of
its approach, which will compete with a separate
initiative dubbed Next Generation I/O (NGI/O) backed by
Intel. In its first generation, Future I/O will use a
four-pin communications protocol to create bidirectional
links with an aggregate peak bandwidth of 2 Gbytes per
second, said Karl Walker, director of technology for
Compaq Computer Corp.'s PC server group. The links will
extend 10 meters over copper and 300 meters over
fibre-optic media, he added.
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By Mike Magee
February 18, 1999
The Register
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UK Journalists are cynical in the
extreme. Be clear and firm about your arguments -- from
Intel's internal publication Working with the European
Press Intel is now denying that it will demo a 1GHz
.18 micron chip by year end.
Or should that first par read: Intel is not denying
that it will demo a 1GHz .18 micron chip by year end?
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By John G. Spooner
February 17, 1999
PC Week Online
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Joined by hundreds of developers and
manufacturers, Intel Corp. on Wednesday offered a peek at
the capabilities of its forthcoming Pentium III processor
at a Preview Day event here. The company's "big
blue door" campaign doesn't officially swing open
until Feb. 28 with the release of the processor, new
software applications, a service that
optimizes Pentium III PC users' Web experience and a $300
million ad campaign crafted to make sure no one misses
any of the improvements Intel has made to the chip.
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By Will Wade
February 17, 1999
Semiconductor Business News
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Although the chip won't be formally
launched until late next week, Intel Corp. previewed its
Pentium III processor here today at an event stressing
the role of the Internet in driving the growth of the
computing industry. "The Internet is the killer
application of the PC business," said Craig Barrett,
Intel's president and CEO during a press conference at
the Pentium III Processor Preview Day. "Its growth
is critical for our core business of
microprocessors."
The Pentium III is slated to officially debut Feb. 26.
It will have clock speeds of 450 MHz, 500 MHz and 550
MHz. The "Xeon" version for the server and
workstation market will be launched in March, with the
same chip speeds.
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By Mark Hachman
February 17, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Intel's bid to accelerate multimedia,
the Internet and electronic commerce has been
complemented by a faster-than-expected rollout of its new
Pentium III microprocessor. Today, Intel held an
informal "preview day" to demonstrate support
for its new Pentium III microprocessor, which officially
launches on February 26th. The idea, according to chief
executive Craig Barrett, was to “create a better
experience for the end user” by accelerating various
aspects of the computing process.
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Information Week
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Intel previewed PCs running
next-generation applications yesterday to tout the power
of its new Pentium III processors. At a media gathering
in San Jose, Calif., vendors displayed assorted business
applications, including speech recognition, 3-D graphics,
and video. Some applications had new security features
offered through Intel's new processor ID numbers, which
let IS managers identify PCs remotely. For example,
SmithMicro Software's HotFaxShare application uses the
new chip to identify the parties on both ends before
sending an Internet fax.
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By Robert Lemos
February 18, 1999
ZD Net UK
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Bolstered by a $300m (£180m) marketing
campaign, more than 200 companies previewed their Pentium
III-optimised wares here at Intel's Pentium III preview
day on Wednesday. If there was any doubt over Intel's
newest processor family, the event may well have quashed
them. "With $300 million in marketing, Intel simply
creates markets," said Nick Glassman, manager of
Excite's Excite Extreme, a new 3-D search engine shown
off by the Californian company at the Intel event.
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By Tony Smith
February 17, 1999
The Register
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Concern that memory companies will not
be able to produce enough Rambus Direct DRAMs increased
yesterday when the deputy general manager of Fujitsu's
DRAM division admitted a shortage of packaging and
testing units will hit supply hard. "1999 is not
going to be a Direct Rambus year," warned Masao
Taguchi.
Taguchi said that tight supplies of both Micro-BGA
packages and testing devices for high-speed memory is
putting the squeeze on Fujitsu's Direct DRAM production,
according to EE Times.
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By David Lammers
February 17, 1999
EE Times
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Intel Corp. will detail its plans for
security and data encryption, next-generation
interconnect and the Rambus memory architecture at the
Intel Developers' Forum, which convenes here Feb. 23-25. Dan
Russell, director of platform marketing, said Intel
expects about 1,500 engineers to attend the 110 technical
sessions and 18 labs over the three-day event. The
general theme is how to design systems, based on the
Pentium III processor, that are optimized for multimedia
and the Internet. The IA-64 Merced architecture will be
more fully described, and Intel executives will detail
plans for embedded applications built around both
StrongARM and Intel-architecture designs. Mobile
technologies will be another theme.
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By Alexander Wolfe
February 16, 1999
EE Times
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When it comes to reporting on Merced,
sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. Take
Hans Mulder, Intel principal engineer, who made a lot of
interesting points in his keynote talk at the recent
Micro-31 conference. They wouldn't all fit into the story
that's running on page 43 of this issue. So I'm going to
continue Mulder's mullings here. Most interesting was
the discussion, during the question-and-answer session
following Mulder's talk, of Merced successor McKinley.
The latter processor is due in late 2001. Mulder was
asked how McKinley would support higher levels of
instruction-level parallelism than Merced.
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By Brooke Crothers
February 17, 1999
C/Net
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As Intel prepares to brief the press and
analysts on the Pentium III today, reviews of the chip
can already be found on Web sites--and some are less than
glowing. These reviews, not for the uninitiated, are
often couched in arcane chip-speak. Aficionados, for
example, may be impressed by front and back shots of the
processor board in a piece by Chamila Sumanasekera at
Review Zone.
But what may not strike people's fancy is the new
processor's uncanny similarity to the Pentium II,
especially in performance benchmarks listed on another
site.
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Planet Hardware
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Intel has certainly taken the x86
processor core to new heights with the Pentium III, but
in this reviewers eyes, most of the hype seems to be hot
air. It's been a long time coming, but Intel's Pentium
III (formerly known as Katmai) is finally getting on the
market, making that brand new Pentium II machine you just
bought seem so obsolete. I'm not going to bore you with
the history of Intel and how they've graduated their
processors onto the next level with the Pentium III,
let's just get on with it. Just for the record, the
processor reviewed is a final version shipping Pentium
III, not an Intel prototype.
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By Michael Kanellos and Brooke Crothers
February 17, 1999
C/Net
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Intel will take the wraps off the
Pentium III today in a massive industry event featuring
planned products from hardware and software makers, but
interest in the chip is decidedly mixed--among both
customers and protesters. Intel CEO Craig Barrett is
delivering a keynote address on the new processor this
morning at the San Jose Convention Center in the heart of
Silicon Valley. Hardware and software companies will then
provide sneak previews of PCs and applications to be
released in conjunction with the debut of Pentium III
machines in stores February 26.
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February 16, 1999
SiliconValley.com
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Intel Corp. on Wednesday will unveil the
latest version of its popular personal computer
microprocessor, the Pentium III, featuring improved
multimedia functions and a controversial security feature
that has prompted a boycott by privacy groups. The
world's largest computer chip maker, aiming to show that
its new processor has vast support within the computer
industry, will host a marketing extravaganza on Wednesday
at the San Jose Convention Center, where hundreds of
hardware and software companies will display products
designed for the Pentium III. Most major computer makers
expected to ship systems featuring the Pentium III on
Feb. 26.
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By Robert Lemos
February 17, 1999
ZD Net News
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Consumer privacy advocates say they may
extend their boycott of Intel Corp.'s next-generation
Pentium III chip to the computer manufacturers who use
it. But at the same time, 20 or more companies are
expected on Wednesday to demonstrate products and
features showing how the chip's controversial tracking
technology can be used.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and
Junkbusters.com. are protesting Intel's use of electronic
identification technology in the new chips that they
claim would allow Web surfers to be tracked. Intel has
pushed the ID chips as a security feature.
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February 16, 1999
TechWeb
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Intel officials are backtracking on
reports that the company can demonstrate a gigahertz
chip, saying it's still some time before Intel reaches
that speed. Pierre Mirjolet, architecture marketing
manager at Intel Europe, Middle East and Africa, said
Intel would have major fabrication plants cranking out
0.18 micron CPUs by the end of this year at speeds
ranging from 600 MHz to 800 MHz.
The gigahertz chips would be only samples or
prototypes late this year or early next, Mirjolet said.
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By Ron Wilson
February 16, 1999
EE Times
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With two ISSCC papers on Silicon-on
Insulator (SOI) PowerPC chips, IBM Microelectronics has
barely scratched the surface of SOI's promise, according
to the company's engineers. The future of the technology
is open-ended, beginning with the obvious promises of
improved power and performance, but including more subtle
advantages and reaching to new, as yet unimagined
structures in silicon. IBM engineers reported on the
development of two different PowerPC implementations
— one commercial CPU, and one for IBM's own AS/400
division. While both designs reported gains in power
consumption and speed over comparable bulk CMOS designs,
both were relatively simple extensions of existing
circuitry and methodology. Basically, circuits from
existing CMOS CPUs were picked up, plopped down on an SOI
process, and only modified if they broke.
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February 16, 1999
EE Times
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As embedded DRAM becomes a key part of
chip process technology, companies are looking toward new
approaches to the architecture itself. In separate
papers, Hitachi and NEC will present to the International
Solid-State Circuits Conference here in San Francisco
this week, researchers will outline new, yet very
different, approaches to improving both initial access
time and overall bandwidth of on-chip DRAM data
transfers.
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By Mike Magee
February 17, 1999
The Register
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AMD has admitted its K6-3 is called the
K6-III. Its own Web site now has the information,
after we told you first (see AMD to call K6-3 the 'AMD
K6-III').
If you go to FAQs about the K6-III" you will see
that AMD has finally admitted the fact.
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By Sandeep Junnarkar
February 16, 1999
C/Net
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Critics of Intel's new chip technology
are trying to widen a boycott and enlist the government
to take a stand against the Pentium III processor which
the critics say can trace where users have been on the
Internet, according to a report. With the official
launch date for the Pentium III chip set for February 26,
Junkbusters and Electronic Privacy Information Center,
the organizers of the boycott, sent letters to several
consumer and privacy groups, hoping they would lobby the
Federal Trade Commission to get involved, the Associated
Press reported.
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By George Leopold
February 12, 1999
EE Times
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In the government's antitrust case
against Intel Corp., the semiconductor giant has lost its
bid to pare the government's witness list, and to remove
a key government litigator. James Timony, Federal Trade
Commission administrative law judge, has denied Intel's
motion to remove Richard Parker, senior deputy director
of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, who once represented
Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Timony also
denied an Intel motion to strike two government
witnesses, Dean Klein, chief technical officer for Micron
Electronics Inc., and Donald Lewine, chief technology
officer for Data General Corp.
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By Eamonn Sullivan
February 16, 1999
IT Week
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AMD and Intel will release new
processors next week. Although Intel is still the
preferred chip supplier for many corporate users, there
are signs that AMD is making inroads into this market. AMD's
K6-III, which will be released on the 22 Feb '99, will
run at 400MHz and 450MHz and will be priced to undercut
the rival Intel Pentium III processors. The PIII, which
will ship a few days later, will start at 500MHz and will
initially be aimed at the high end of the workstation
market.
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By Brooke Crothers
February 12, 1999
C/Net
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Though Advanced Micro Devices isn't
bowling over Wall Street, it's swamping archrival Intel
at retail stores across the country. In a scenario
that would have seemed unbelievable only a year ago, AMD
has swept the shelves at many consumer outlets. And the
success comes despite less-than-encouraging earnings
reports from the Sunnyvale, California-based chip
manufacturer.
Sunday paper inserts are awash in AMD green. "We
make more money on the AMD systems," said one
representative at a CompUSA store in suburban
Philadelphia. "It's all AMD...that's what they send
us," quipped a sales person.
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By JoAnne Robb
February 12, 1999
PC World
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You don't need the Motley Fool to know a
good return when you see it--especially if you're a
gamer. Way back in the summer of 1998, you invested in
an AMD-K6-2-based machine in hopes that soon software
would support the nifty 3D graphics technology--called
3Dnow--that those AMD chips promised. Well, here's the
payoff. This week, 12 game publishers and developers
announced 3DNow-optimized titles for release this year.
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By Mike Magee
February 15, 1999
The Register
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The continuing scrap between Intel and
AMD to dominate the lower end market is set to make times
tough for late entrants like Rise and IDT. And
NatSemi-Cyrix too will be squeezed. Joe D'Elia, senior
microprocessor analyst at Dataquest Europe, said today
that that both IDT and Rise are "bottom
feeders" in the marketplace.
"Rise hasn't had a presence in Europe until
recently," D'Elia said. "Both are working in
the white box market and with corner shops and not
competing with Intel and AMD."
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February 16, 1999
Smart Reseller
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Developing Windows 2000 and Windows 9x
enhancements is not Microsoft's only problem. The
company's high- end 64bit development effort has hit
delays, according to insiders. Publicly, Microsoft
insists it will deliver a 64bit NT release simultaneously
with Intel's IA-64 Merced processor, which is due in mid
to late 2000. Microsoft and Intel maintain that the
effort is going well.
But privately, the intellectual crossfire between the
two companies is intense, said one developer who
requested anonymity. "We have front-row seats at the
fights. The dirty little secret is that 32bit Windows
applications won't run as fast on Merced once they are
compiled. Microsoft is annoyed," he said.
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By Mark Hachman
February 16, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Intel Corp. has successfully tested the
Pentium III at speeds up to and including 650 MHz,
according to executives speaking Monday at a San
Francisco semiconductor engineering conference. In a
paper titled "A 600-MHz IA-32 Microprocessor with
Enhanced Data Streaming for Graphics and Video,"
Stephen Fischer, microarchitecture and microcode project
leader for Intel's Pentium III, said the chip had been
tested to the higher clock speed. The presentation, made
at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference
in San Francisco, was a formal discussion of the
architecture of the "Katmai" or Pentium III
chip, which Intel will launch this Wednesday.
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By Kristen Kenedy
February 12, 1999
Computer Retail Week
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Despite the marketing muscle behind
Intel's Pentium III launch next week, retailers and
analysts are questioning whether the processor's new
multimedia instruction sets can boost the average selling
prices of PCs. Gary Richman, Intel's U.S. retail
marketing manager, said the company will spend $300
million on worldwide promotions. Intel will increase its
in-store training staff and hold special events for sales
associates to attract attention. The Santa Clara, Calif.,
chip giant also will provide live Internet connections to
its top accounts to demonstrate the first 450-MHz and
500-MHz PIII PCs.
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By John G. Spooner
February 12, 1999
PC Week Online
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Intel Corp.'s Pentium III may solve more
problems for Intel than it does for IT managers. At a
Preview Day event next week in San Jose, Calif., Intel
plans to show off the new processor for the first time in
public. About 200 OEMs and software developers will be on
hand with new PCs and applications that take advantage of
the Pentium III's new graphics-oriented instruction set.
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By Jeff Walsh
February 13, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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With next week's launch of the Pentium
III, Intel will be putting the focus on its new
processor's capability to display fast, rich graphics and
multimedia over the Web. At the same time, two Web
consortia are working to enhance Web graphics, and
Microsoft is planning a Web graphics tool for Office
2000.
At the Pentium III launch, Macromedia and Platinum
Technology will showcase their Web playback engines,
which are optimized for the new processor.
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By Matt Loney
February 13, 1999
IT Week
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As I/O rivals met in San Francisco last
week to iron out their differences, Intel indicated how
its Next Generation I/O (NGIO) technology will change the
shape of servers. Expansion cards will be housed in
separate cabinets and multiple servers will be able to
share the same cards.
With lengths up to 17 metres, NGIO cables will enable
a vastly different layout to today’s PCI
specification, which is tied down by more than 100 pins
and a maximum distance between processor and card of
17in.
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By Jim Davis
February 16, 1999
C/Net
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High-speed cable modems may become
cheaper in the near future as a result of an Intel
initiative now coming to light. Intel is working with
Libit Signal Processing and possibly other partners to
produce a futuristic breed of devices called
"host-based" cable modems.
The devices would use the computer's main
microprocessor and memory for some functions, rather than
requiring the separate processor, memory, and operating
system normally needed by a stand-alone modem. Because
fewer chips are needed, they are potentially less
expensive and easier to upgrade than traditional hardware
modems.
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By Mike Magee
February 15, 1999
The Register
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Sources close to Hewlett Packard said
today that it was pursuing its own course on re-iteration
of the PA-RISC chips, despite the company's close
connection with Intel, on Merced. The problem is
complex and has puzzled many senior members of the
comp.arch forum on Usenet.
Some say Merced is dead but Intel is still insistent
it can produce a fast IA-64 part.
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By Mike Magee
February 14, 1999
The Register
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Jonathan Hou, at PC One seems to have a
knack of getting these pesky chip vendors to talk to him.
We can assure you, they are pesky. We're still trying
to get a date with the marketeers at AMD so they can tell
us all about the K6-III. (Story: AMD to call K6-3 the
K6-III)
Jonathan's recently managed to secure an interview
with IDT-Centaur, makers of the fabled WinChip x.86 clone
chip and in the process winkled some good information out
of them. They've been keeping very quiet for the last few
months, although now and again they've raised their head
over the parapet.
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The Intel Slide Show
Slides from various Intel Presentations
February 13, 1999
The Register
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February 16, 1999
SiliconValley.com
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Days before the debut of the fastest
ever computer processor from Intel Corp., the chip's
critics sought Monday to widen their boycott and enlist
the government in opposing the new technology, which they
say will allow easy tracing of Internet users. The
organizers of the boycott, Junkbusters Corp. of Green
Brook, N.J., and the Washington-based Electronic Privacy
Information Center, sent letters to privacy and consumer
groups, encouraging them to get the Federal Trade
Commission involved.
Intel, the world's largest computer chip-maker,
announced last month that its upcoming Pentium III chip
will be able to transmit a unique serial number
internally and to Web sites that request it. This could
be used to verify the identity of Web site users.
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