| Intel Corp. plans to break the 1-GHz barrier in the mobile space in the first half of 2001, the company said Tuesday, while rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. disclosed its first multiprocessor implementation.
While the presentations at the Microprocessor Forum here have been geared towards a technical audience of engineers and system designers, stock-conscious manufacturers have also disclosed product milestones to attract additional investment.
“The mobile market isn’t what it used to be in the following sense,” said Bob Jackson, principal engineer at Intel’s Mobile Products Group in Santa Clara, Calif. “It’s grown enormously, and in the other sense it’s segmented as it hasn’t done before.”
About 60 percent of the notebooks shipped this year will be in the “thin and light” category, which combines high performance and low power, according to Intel.
Intel, Santa Clara, plans to break the 1-GHz barrier with its mobile microprocessor about a year after it first sampled its desktop processors at 1-GHz, according to company officials. |
