Intel last pieces of P4 strategy in place
Strategies | at | by Mike
The mainstream PC market is about to give Intel Corp.'s Pentium 4 a boost, with expectations that unit shipments of the microprocessor will increase by five times in the next four months. Come September, Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., will have finally assembled the pieces of its Pentium 4 strategy, allowing the company to begin phasing out the venerable Pentium III microprocessor in all PC segments. The last piece of the puzzle will drop into place when Intel formally launches its i845 chipset next month with support for PC133 memory, the first time the Pentium 4 will be matched with SDRAM.