Tualatin First Look
From
Extremetech:
Several readers noted that we had spelled "Tualatin" incorrectly (i.e., "Tualitin"). Having lived in Oregon and Washington for many years, I must personally confess to having egg on my face. As many of you may know, Tualatin is a river in Oregon, which shares the same headwaters region with the Willamette River. More of you have probably heard of Tualatin as an Intel code name.
With that little Mea Culpa aside, let's take a look at the product code-named Tualatin. Tualatin is latest incarnation of the Pentium III architecture. It's manufactured using Intel's 0.13 micron process, which allows much higher circuit densities than the original Coppermine Pentium III. (The original Pentium III was built around the company's 0.18 micron process). The new 0.13 micron process uses copper interconnects to increase current-carrying efficiency. To put things in perspective, the die size of desktop Tualatin is 81mm2 versus 106mm2 for the older 0.18 micron version. That's more than a 20% reduction in chip area, which directly translates to lower cost and more dies per wafer. "
