Bij Xbit zegt men over nadere informatie te beschikken, dat Intel nog deze week de nieuwe Pentium III Tualatin processor zal aankondigen; op 19 juni om precies te zijn. De op 0,13 micron geproduceerde CPU zal eerst in server-versies uitkomen op 1,13GHz. Ook over de komst van de andere Intel processoren deze zomer, weet men het een en ander te melden:
19 June: This day will be a turning point for Pentium III. On this day Intel is going to announce its first CPU based on 0.13micron Tualatin core. However, the first Tualatin will be aimed at the server market only and is most likely to feature 256KB or 512KB L2 cache. The first Tualatin announced will work at 1.13GHz.
2 July: On this day Intel will add more members to its Pentium 4 (Willamette) family. There will be two "intermediate" models with 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz working frequencies. Also Intel will release desktop Celeron 900MHz and mobile Celeron 850MHz.
30 July: This date will indicate the coming of Tualatin processors into the mobile market. Intel will announce mobile Pentium III family based on 0.13micron technology core and featuring 512KB L2 cache. The working frequencies of the new models will lie in the interval from 866MHz to 1.13GHz. At the same time a new mobile integrated chipset to support these CPUs will be released: i830MP (aka Almador-M).
6 August: Intel will announce complete "Tualatinization". The company will launch Pentium III (Tualatin) family for desktops. There will be two processors with the working frequencies equal to 1.13GHz and 1.2GHz and featuring 512KB L2 cache.
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Intel komt dus eerst met de duurder geprijsde en om minder grote aantallen vragende server-versie, daarna met de mobile versie en tenslotte moet in augustus het 0,13 micron proces op dreef zijn, om de desktop Tualatins in volumes van de productielijnen te kunnen laten rollen. Ook is deze volgorde mogelijkerwijs een marketing-overweging, om de P4 niet teveel in de weg te lopen, voordat deze zelf ook op 0,13 micron uitkomt.
Update: Volgens The Inquirer heeft Intel bevestigd dat het vandaag, 19 juni, de Tualatin server-versie uit zal brengen op 1,13GHz. Volgens The Inquirer met 256KB cache, volgens Xbit Laboratories echter met 512KB cache. Op 6 augustus zal nog een 1,26GHz server Tualatin volgen. Tevens werd bevestigd dat alleen de server uitvoering (waarschijnlijk Xeon genaamd -JL) dual-processor support biedt. SMP wordt dus waarschijnlijk gedisabled in de mobile en desktop Tualatins. Hierdoor zal de Tualatin in dual-processor opstelling geen interne concurrentie vormen voor dual Foster (P4 Xeon) systemen.

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