Surprisingly, the notebook is powered by a 1.7GHz Intel Pentium M processor, which is a notch above the Celeron we anticipated.
For an Intel Pentium II, the package is a square of plastic 1.2 inches on a side and as thick as a silver dollar.
For an Intel Pentium II, the package is a square of plastic about 30mm on a side and about as thick as a gold Krugerrand.
ViaVideo's engineers used two Philips TM-1000 digital signal processors capable of handling, between them, 6 billion operations a second -- the equivalent of seven Intel Pentium II microprocessors found in top-of-the-line PCs.
The standard was raised six times during the Clinton administration, the last of which raised the tier-three requirement to 85, 000 MTOPS, about the level of a networked system with 32 Intel Pentium III chips.
The newest Intel Pentium chip has such densely packed circuits that it consumes the same power as a 100-watt lightbulb with a filament burning as hot as 4, 500 degrees Fahrenheit--one you'd have to wear mittens to unscrew.
Performance-ready for the highly mobile consumer that needs to remain productive, the Gateway UC Series uses either Intel Centrino 2 or Intel Centrino Processor Technology, along with an Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo or Intel Pentium processor.
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When customers learned about a flaw in Intel's Pentium chips, Grove refused to acknowledge the bug.
If you believe the hype, all this has other chipmakers notably Intel, whose Pentium series is the market leader quaking in their boots.
There are the all-purpose chips like Intel's Pentium series, which can perform almost any computing task, from running a videogame to calculating a spreadsheet.
By the late 1990s, he had overseen the development of his share of high-profile products, including Intel's Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium MMX processors.
The laptop-sized PS3 will boast a high-speed internet connection and microprocessor that is several times faster than Intel's Pentium 4 chip used in PCs and game consoles.
In the wake of Intel's Pentium III launch, a slew of product announcements and upgrades have ensued, upping the ante on the desktop question of whether to buy now or wait for the maximum-performance chip set.
The highest-profile result was the release this yearof AMD's 1-gigahertz Athlon microprocessor, which competes against Intel's fastest Pentium.
Rambus technology was supposed to be the only memory-interface technology to work with Intel's forthcoming Pentium 4 processor.
The highest-profile result was the release this year of AMD's 1-gigahertz Athlon microprocessor, which competes against Intel's fastest Pentium.
Four years ago Intel's speedy Pentium processors were running out of gas.
Intel's new Pentium 4 microprocessor sizzles at an average 110 watts, hot enough to whip up a batch of muffins--and slow a PC's advertised performance.
Intel's newest Pentium is not a generational jump from the PII.
The first Centrino-branded chips are expected to show up sometime before the summer and debut at clock speeds of about 1.6 gigahertz--considerably slower than Intel's flagship Pentium chips, which now top out at about 3 GHz.
On the desktop front (shown after the jump), the PC Station BJ series sports a slim, compact form factor, an Intel Celeron D, Pentium 4, or Core 2 Duo E4300 depending on model, up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM, between 250GB and 320GB of HDD space, a dual-layer DVD burner, Windows Vista, and a number of matching displays between 17- and 22-inches.
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Traditionally, Intel's prima donna Pentium engineers in Hillsboro, Ore. would outdo each other to set clock-speed records.
PS2's central processor, a 128-bit microprocessor developed by Sony and Toshiba, has twice the raw number-crunching power of Intel's most advanced Pentium chip used in professional desktop computers.
In its complaint, the FTC said Intel harmed competition when it stopped providing samples of upcoming Pentium chips to three companies that rely on the processors to build Intel-based systems -- Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp. (which was acquired by Compaq last year) and Intergraph Corp.
If fast enough memory can be had, the EV6 bus will give the K7 a big edge over the Pentium III -- Intel's current top bus speed is 100 MHz.
Yau of Schroeders likes Elec and Eltek, which makes top of the line motherboards that carry Intel's state of the art Pentium chip.
If his invention works as he says it will, Intel could make a 20-gigahertz Pentium chip with the equipment it now uses to make a 2-gigahertz chip.
Intel has shipped 6, 000 prototype Pentium 4 PCs to developers, who are busy developing applications, peripherals and other products that will work with Pentium 4 systems, he said.
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