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Intel changes chip plans
By Matt Loney, ZDNet UK
Intel Corp. confirmed Wednesday that the next-generation Celeron processor
will be available in both a socket and a slot architecture, signaling that
some PCs with the processor will cost less than expected.
The next Celeron, code-named Mendocino, will include 128Kb of on-chip level
2 cache and will launch later this year in the same Single Edge Processor
Package as the current Celerons.
'The socket means nothing -- it's just a piece of plastic. It's the bus that
is important, and this processor will use our P6 bus.'
-- Intel official
Intel (INTC) will introduce the socket version, with clock frequencies of
300MHz and 333MHz, in the first half of 1999.
Celeron was not expected to come in a socket version, as Intel had said it
would move its chip lines to the proprietary Slot 1 bus and its follow-on
architectures.
But this new version will sit in a 370-pin socket that uses the same P6 bus
used by all current Intel processors -- as opposed to Socket 7, which uses
the old Pentium bus.
At 66MHz, the bus will be the same speed as the current Celeron bus.
No U-turn
Intel said it was not a U-turn on socket thinking.
"People will get confused," conceded a spokesman. "They assumed that sockets
have more limitations than slots. The socket means nothing -- it's just a
piece of plastic. It's the bus that is important, and this processor will
use our P6 bus."
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 He added that "all we're doing is offering two options, in the same way
that we offer different packaging options for the mobile (Pentium II). The
bottom line is, we're trying to continue to offer ways to lower the total
cost of the basic PC platform."
Performance will be the same for the socket and slot versions of Mendocino,
said the spokesman. They will look different because of the packaging, but
otherwise will be exactly the same.
Priced to please?
Prices for PCs using the socket version are likely to be cheaper, however,
since they will not have the card guides that hold the Celeron processor
package in place. This may please system vendors upset over very narrow
profit margins from Celeron systems.
However, the spokesman said, there is more at stake than simply lowering
cost: "Over the course of the year, the [Celeron] platform will evolve into
something very different from today".
He did not give details, but hinted at the possibility of processing
communications and audio in software so that OEMs can cut out the expense of
modems and sound cards. Intel is also planning to integrate its i740
graphics processor onto motherboards.
National Semiconductor Corp. (NSM), which owns Intel rival Cyrix Corp., has
a number of technical and legal rights to the P6 bus, and so could
conceivably produce a processor that would use the 370-pin Socket -- but
National/Cyrix officials could not be reached for comment.
'Overdrive' launch planned
Later this year Intel will also launch a Pentium Pro Overdrive processor.
This will add MMX instructions to the Pentium Pro, essentially making a
Pentium II that will fit in Socket 8.
Clock frequencies will be faster than those of current Pentium Pros, but
will not reach 350MHz, said Intel, because of restrictions imposed by the
66MHz bus speed.
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E allora? Come dice giustamente il tipo che ha parlato, il socket e'
solo un pezzo di plastica... spero che nessuno di voi abbia creduto
seriamente alla stonzata secondo cui lo Slot 1 offre prestazioni molto
superiori al Socket 7... Secondo me il vantaggio del socket7 sta nel
minore ingombro, ma comunque il mendocino (che nome del cazzo...)
sara' basato su un'architettura diversa, e quindi inutilizzabile sulle
attuali mamme socket7, anche se fisicamente compatibile!
Ciao
 
Ricky !