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All of Us Are "Alpha-Testers". [05/19/2002 05:21 AM]
by Anna Filatova

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Following the announcement about the change of the core stepping of Pentium III-S, Pentium III-M and 0.13micron Mobile Celeron processors, the same announcement has been made regarding the other 0.13micron CPUs: desktop Celeron and Pentium III. Of course, the changes are absolutely the same ("errata" correction, new CPUID (0x06B4), Brand ID index and Brand String changes), because the core is the same (Tualatin-512 and its cut-down Tualatin-256 version). What is different, it’s the dates: the first samples of desktop Celeron and Pentium III processors with the new B1 core stepping will appear in the first half of June, and their mass shipments are scheduled to begin on July 22.

By the way, I would like to point out one very remarkable thing again. Remember, that some time ago (about 2-3 years) none of the Intel processors could get into mass production before it grew up to "B" core stepping (A0 is the first engineering chip alpha-version, A1 – the second, corrected version). At present, however, the chips go there long before they reach the "B" stepping (SiS for instance, thinks it is quite OK if even the A0 chip version, that is the very first one, goes into mass production).

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