The bus is very fast and very alien to how everyone is used to working. "This has been a pretty painful transition for and for the industry," said Michael Feibus, an analyst at Mercury Research.
"Micron chose the new VIA technology because it found the chipset coupled with standard 133 MHz synchronous dynamic random access memory delivers virtually the same or better performance as systems equipped with the substantially more costly RAMBUS technology," Micron said in a statement.
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"We are going to have a server product next year that runs Coppermine," said a spokesman for IBM.Īt least one PC maker, Nampa, Idaho-based Micron Electronics, has decided to go with a competing chipset from VIA Technologies of Taiwan.
Some are looking at alternatives, such as Intel's other chipset, the 810E, but it does not have the same graphics performance.Ī spokesman for Dell Computer in Round Rock, Texas said that Dell will be introducing systems based on the new Pentium III chips, but he did not yet have any further details, such as the timing of those products. Meanwhile, some PC makers are in limbo and unable to ship their new products, until the 820 chipset is ready. 8 months after introduction of Katmai core, Intel released first processors with Coppermine core - new Pentium III core based on 0.18 micron technology.Better manufacturing technology resulted in smaller die size of the CPU, and with smaller die size it became economically feasible to incorporate 256 KB level 2 cache on the die. But they can't commit to anything unless it is 100 percent validated."Īn Intel spokesman declined to comment on the chipset status, or if it will be introduced on Monday. Everyone wants to stand up on the stage and say the chipset is ready. In terms of overall gaming performance, the Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz is marginally better than the Intel Pentium III 1200Mhz when it comes to running the latest games. "They have to make sure the fix doesn't cause another problem. "They have the problem solved and they are testing the fix," said Linley Gwennap, editorial director of the Microprocessor Report. Certain systems were experiencing intermittent errors at extreme temperatures and voltages and the companies said two weeks ago that they were working to resolve the bugs.
The chipset, which accompanies the new Pentium III processors, is the first use of a memory-enhancing technology developed by Rambus, based in Mountain View, California. Previous versions of the Pentium III run too hot for laptop users.īut analysts said the launch is not expected to include Intel's 820 chipset, code-named Camino, which was suddenly delayed last month, to the chagrin of some PC makers, like Dell Computer that had product launches tied to the processor and the chipset. "It's extremely important for Intel because this is what is going to allow them to deploy a lower-cost, higher-performance Pentium III and continue to fuel the high-end of the product mix," said Mark Edelstone, an analyst with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.Īnalysts said power consumption in the chips is also lower, because the transistors are smaller, so Intel will now have the first Pentium III chips for notebook computer users.