Intel's flagship chip goes mobile
C|Net | at | by Mike
Intel is bringing more power to people on the go. The chipmaker on Monday launched the Pentium 4-M, the first mobile version of its flagship Pentium 4 processor. Intel said the new chip offers clock speeds of 1.6GHz to 1.7GHz, increases the speed of the front side bus from 133MHz to 400MHz and adds faster Double Data Rate SDRAM memory technology for an overall performance increase of as much as 49 percent compared with its top-of-the-line 1.2GHz Pentium III-M chip.
With the extra performance on tap from the Pentium 4-M, many analysts expect consumers to adopt notebooks in greater numbers. At the same time, PC makers are counting on corporations to begin buying PCs and notebooks again after the shrinking economy of 2001 caused them to put hardware upgrades on hold.