The Register heeft weer wat vage info over de Willamette. Ze beweren dat Intel nog dit jaar de opvolger van de PIII zal introduceren (erg onwaarschijnlijk, want op welk platform zou die proc dan moeten draaien?!):
Intel appears to be about to come clean on the early launch of the 'Athlon killer' Willamette, as exclusively revealed here a couple of weeks back.Chipzilla is holding a web briefing for analysts only (don’t want any of those nasty press animals listening in, do we?) later today and CNET reports that Willamette will be high on the agenda.
Andy Grove is expected to reveal a Q4 launch for Willamette at 800MHz, going up to 1100MHz in Q1 ’00. [break] Ik zou ook ff deze reaktie van JC op het vorige Willamette nieuwsbericht van The Register lezen.
Update [19:08]: News.com heeft ook een nieuwsbericht over de web briefing: [/break] Andy Grove, CEO Craig Barrett, and other high-ranking Intel executives will provide details on the current state of the company as well as provide a more granular look into its 2000 road map later this afternoon.
[...] Desktops will see changes as well. At the end of the year, the company has said that it will come out with Willamette, the code name for the family of chips that will succeed the Pentium III. Willamette processors will be based around a new architecture. By contrast, the P6 architecture, the basis of the Pentium III, has been around since the Pentium Pro.
A slide shown at a Pentium III launch earlier this week showed that Intel plans to ship desktop processors running at 1 GHz by the end of the year.
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