John Spooner, ZDNet News, writes . . .

“The mobile Pentium III's days are numbered. Intel Corp. sources say the chip maker is working to replace its top-of-the-line notebook processor, the mobile Pentium III, with a new chip, code-named Northwood, in 2001. Northwood, based on the same next-generation 32-bit architecture as Intel's forthcoming Willamette desktop chip, will mark the beginning of… Intel's transition to a 0.13-micron process. Changing process technologies allows a chip maker to increase performance while reducing both cost and power consumption.”

meanwhile . . .

“Advanced Micro Devices is expected to begin shipping a mobile version of its Athlon processor well before Northwood hits the streets. That mobile Athlon, about which little is known, will be based on AMD's Mustang processor core. It will include integrated cache and be compatible with AMD's Socket A.”

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