New Pentium 4-M breaks 2GHz barrier
C|Net | at | by Mike
Intel broke through the 2GHz barrier for notebook PCs on Monday with the launch of a new Pentium 4-M chip. The 2GHz chip, which is accompanied by a 1.9GHz Pentium 4-M and a handful of mobile Celerons, meets Intel's internal target for shipping a 2GHz mobile chip by midyear. Although the PC market overall has lurched into the doldrums again, notebooks have fared better than desktops in a variety of markets for some time. Notebook shipments are expected to grow 17 percent year over year from 2001 to 2002, said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and general manager of Intel's Mobile Platforms Group, citing a study from Gartner. The new Pentium 4-M and Celeron chips will be offered in notebooks issued by a slew of PC makers on Monday. Starting prices for the new machines from companies such as Dell Computer and Hewlett-Packard will range from $1,299 for a 1.33GHz Celeron machine to about $2,000 for a 2GHz notebook, Intel representatives said.