ZDNet is reporting about the new Intel Pentium 4 mobile chips coming next year. Due to launch in March or April, the speeds available will be 1.6 and 1.7Ghz, not bad for a mobile part. This comes with its price though. Apparently the P4 is very power hungry, and a second fan will have to be added by laptop makers to keep it sufficiently cool.

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Intel wants to get rid of their Pentium 3 CPUs, and has cut prices on desktops and server P3's. The 1Ghz Pentium3 is now 17% cheaper at $143, while the 1.1 and 1.13Ghz were cut by 10% to $173.

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Reuters has an interesting story describing some of the recent progress by Intel on the ever ongoing speed quest. If you've followed this stuff closely you're probably familiar with a lot of the tech in question, but it also offers some good comparisons of progress by IBM. Thanks Tech-Report

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ZDNet reports that Compaq is not releasing their Intel Itanium servers just yet, as Intel's new CPU didn't pass their server stress test. Both the 733mhz and 800mhz version of the Itanium have problems during these tests. The Itanium was already released much later than planned, and according to a Dell general manager "Customer interest for Itanium servers is 'effectively zero' ". Not too positive for Chipzilla.

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There's an interview with Intel CEO Craig Barrett on NewsFactor (through Yahoo). Craig talks about the company's financial results, upcoming technology, the namechange of StrongArm processors to X-Scale, and a few other non-CPU things which probably won't interest you.

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HardOCP has an article on the realities behind the Via P4X266 chipset which offers DDR support for P4 CPU users. As was mentioned a little while ago Via is selling their own motherboards with the chipset which is a new market for them.

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The Register has posted a big list of all the Intel processor products and their prices as of today. As you might know, Intel and AMD are both cutting prices.

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According to x-bit labs, CPU prices will drop down some more this Monday. Look for changes between 12 and 29% for the Pentium 4, and between 12 and 22% for the Athlon XP.

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Here's one that I dont know how slipped by us a couple days ago at the Microprocessor Forum. VIA has announced plans to create a Pentium4 CPU Clone (Thanks /.). Thats right, not just motherboards but they are actually going to make the CPU.

C.J. Holthaus, an engineer at VIA-owned Centaur Technology, told reporters the chip is a "Pentium 4 clone". Like Pentium 4 it will use a deep 18-stage pipeline architecture, allowing it to scale to very high speeds, and other key technologies will also mimic the Pentium 4, Holthaus said.

The chip is based on 0.10-micron technology and is due in 2003 or 2004. update: TheInquirer.net is claiming that the VIA guy who said this is in a bit of trouble, and they are of course now denying the whole thing. Thanks Raziel

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Intel is closing up shop for their consumer electronics division. This includes stuff like digital cameras, digital audio devices, and misc other electronic toys. They are gonna sell off existing inventory and close the thing down by 2002.

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Just when you thought the hip new thing to do with CPUs was using copper, Intel is saying they wanna use that wacky fiber optics stuff. The use of fiber optics will most certainly be more complex than just using pieces of metal, but also add the benefit of consuming less power when doing its job.

Optical connections, which use laser light beams rather than electrical impulses to transmit signals, could solve some bottlenecks because they can run on less power. It won't be cheap or easy, but it might become the lead alternative. Other companies are also looking at organic connections.

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Oh my this one isnt pretty. Intel Corp has just announced that their company net revenue has dropped 77 percent for the quarter. They are projecting a pretty respectable 4th quarter but dont offer up a heck of a lot of explanation on the huge drop for this quarter:

Intel (Nasdaq:INTC - news) said that net income before acquisition-related costs fell to $655 million, or 10 cents a share, from $2.89 billion, or 43 cents, a year ago, which included 7 cents a share in acquisition-related costs. Sales declined 25 percent to $6.5 billion from $8.73 billion.

The AMD earnings conference is scheduled for tomorrow.

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Intel is readying the release of their mobile Pentium4 and according to CNET those CPUs will be fast.When they are released early next year, speeds should be above 1.5Ghz with 2Ghz later in the year. To keep cost down, DDR ram will be used instead of Rambus.

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Via Technologies, who as many people know have been fighting with Intel because of their P4 compatible chipset have decided to put out their own motherboard line as many motherboard manufacturers have been afraid of Intel pulling the plug on them if they were to cooperate with Via.

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Somehow I overlooked actually linking the Intel story about their new CPU packaging. Here's some of the details released by Intel to check out. It's gonna make our computers go vroom!

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