Mobile Pentium 4 to debut above 1.5GHz
C|Net | at | by Mike
Intel's Pentium 4 for mobile computers will come out at speeds above 1.5GHz in the first half of next year, but it won't be matched with memory based on technology from Rambus. The Pentium 4, which currently is available only in desktops, comes to notebooks by virtue of a manufacturing shift that cuts the power consumed and heat dissipated by the chip, said Bob Jackson, principal engineer in Intel's mobile processing group. By cutting the power, Intel can squeeze the chip into portables. "You need to keep the average power down to about 10 percent of the overall power" consumed by the notebook, Jackson said at the Microprocessor Forum here.