Intel's P6 chip architecture not dead yet
C|Net | at | by Mike
The core technology behind the Pentium II and Pentium III apparently will go on and on. Banias, a low-power chip for notebooks and Internet devices coming from Intel in the first half of 2003, will be based around the P6 architecture, the processor design that is being phased out in other Intel product lines, according to Kevin Krewell, an analyst at subscription newsletter "Microprocessor Report." The chip will contain significant new modifications for saving power but will effectively feature the same computing core as the Pentium Pro, which debuted in 1996. "The P6 architecture in this morphed version will live on," he said during a seminar at the Microprocessor Forum here on Monday. "Banias is a derivative of the Pentium III, we know that."