Intel Corp will introduce its first ‘Coppermine’ chips, built on the 0.18 micron process on Monday, October 25. The company will be launching Pentium III and Xeon III Coppermine desktop processors with mobile Coppermine processors hard on their heels. However, the ill-fated Camino 820 chipset is not expected to appear before the end of the […]
Intel Corp will introduce its first ‘Coppermine’ chips, built on the 0.18 micron process on Monday, October 25. The company will be launching Pentium III and Xeon III Coppermine desktop processors with mobile Coppermine processors hard on their heels. However, the ill-fated Camino 820 chipset is not expected to appear before the end of the year, despite rumors that Intel had solved its bug problems and was preparing to launch a version dubbed 820E with the Coppermine chips.
Intel’s original strategy tied the new Pentium chips – one version of which will run at 733MHz – to the Camino. However, Intel spokesperson, George Alfs, said that with the 440BX chipset and the newly released 810E, Coppermine will have plenty of infrastructure to run on. However, Intel may find that manufacturers chose to ignore the older 440BX and low-end 810E in favor of the new Apollo chipset from VIA Technologies Inc. The Taiwanese board has a 133MHz front side bus and supports the increasingly popular PC133 SDRAM specification. Intel is not planning to release an equivalent chipset until next year.
