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Written: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Approximately one year ago Tom’s Hardware, AnandTech, and HardOCP brought to the attention of Intel a problem with their 1.13 GHz Pentium III. Intel had decided they weren’t yet ready to release the PIII in that flavor and recalled the few CPUs they had sold. Instead of working on increasing the P3s performance and speed, they put their focus on their new Pentium 4 line. Originally Intel had planned on having the Pentium III completely replaced by the Pentium 4. Instead they have decided to release the “new” Pentium III (Tualatin) and have the Pentium 4 become their new mainstream processor line. This would leave the Pentium III to eventually transform into the future Celeron. The Tualatin was originally to be aimed just towards the mobile world, but was released in three flavors: desktop, mobile (Pentium III-M), and server (Pentium III-S). Even though the Tualatin will still be known as the Pentium III, it creates a new generation, the first to utilize the 0.13 micron core. This core will eventually become the basis for the next-generation Celeron. The Tualatin suits the mobile world perfectly, mainly because the Pentium 4 is too big, takes up too much power, and runs too hot. Intel will still be putting most of their emphasis of this processor on the mobile market. The Tualatin is also available with a larger 512KB L2 cache for servers (Pentium III-S). This increase of L2 cache is very useful when running database or processor intensive applications. Currently the Itanium and Pentium III Xeon occupy Intel’s main server line. The desktop Tualatin is NOT SMP compatible, but the Pentium III-S IS SMP compatible allowing up to two processors to work together. Next Page: An In-depth
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