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This is right from ZDNet. Heres the Excerpt.

What do you get when you drop a Pentium 4 1.6Ghz CPU down to a blamy -65C? A Pentium 4 that does 2.6Ghz(16x162mhz FSB). If that's not fast, I don't know what is. The website is Japanese, but the link takes you there via WorldLingo which attempts to translate it. I wonder how this does RC5?

According to a news post at zdnet, Intel is phasing out the Pentium III processor in desktop systems and should be out by the end of the year. The chip will still be included in low-end servers and laptops. There is a new PIII coming out based on a 0.13 micron process, but it will not actively be marketed at desktops. Intel is trying to push their new processor, the Pentium 4, which people have been slow to adopt.

Intel was left red faced this morning after a sub-domain on its website was defaced by the Sm0ked Crew. The sub-domain affected was talisman1.cps.intel.com. According to the article, the site is running Microsoft IIS4 on Windows NT4 - no surprises here! An Intel spokesperson went on to say that "no HTML was uploaded" (huh?!) and the attackers only left a greeting (well isn't that still HTML?). Anyway, go read the full report here.

Since the Pentium 4 was designed for a high level of scalability, the Sharky Extreme labs decided to push their 1.5GHz engineering sample as far as it would go to see what significant performance increases were available. Check out the article here.

SAN JOSE, Calif. –– Advancing again in the race to manufacture chips for the mobile computer market, Intel Corp. has built two new energy-saving versions of its Pentium III and Celeron microprocessors.

The two new low-voltage chips, to be introduced on Tuesday, are designed for lightweight notebooks weighing less than three pounds. One of them, the Pentium III, is the industry's first to operate at 300-megahertz speed under 1 volt while consuming less than a half watt of power, Intel officials said.

Tweakers.net has posted a preview of the Itanium that includes benchmarks of the x86
emulator. Looks pretty dismal here, as it struggles to keep up with even a Pentium I in many areas! I guess we're all hoping that the 64-bit apps will make this thing not look so bad.

There is an interesting story on MSNBC about Intel's attempts at producing chips capable of running at faster than 10 gigahertz. This article from MSNBC is pretty detailed (both technically and non), and provides a very intriguing look at what Intel's planning to do over the next four years, and what they'll have to show the general public as soon as April 1st.

Saw this over at IDG.

"Intel wants to be more than just the world's biggest CPU maker. The company is announcing Tuesday its latest consumer hardware device: an MP3 player with an FM tuner and 128MB of built-in flash memory."

Saw this over at Arstechnica:
The flaw in the P4 chipset's PCI handling hasn't gone away yet. The bug, which was originally uncovered before the launch of the P4 and
ultimately delayed the rollout of the CPU, is apparently not considered serious enough to warrant immediate attention. Note that the bug is
in the chipset, and not the P4 CPU itself (as some sites mistakenly reported). This bug seems to be minor, but I get a sense that we're not