by Anton Shilov
08/28/2002 | 04:29 PM
The first of September is going to be a day full of announcements made by Intel. Firstly they will launch a new Celeron processor, secondly, the company will get rid of certain mainboards in their line, thirdly, the prices will be declined, fourthly, a new mainboard will be released and, finally, a recently-created Ethernet adapter will be announced. A big plan, isn`t it?
Now, in details, provided by The Inquirer straight from Intel’s top-secret documents.<%BANNER[article]%>
Starting from the 1st of September, Intel will offer Celeron processor with 2GHz core-clock. The newcomer is manufactured using 0.13 micron technology, features 128KB of L2 cache and 400MHz processor bus. The company plans to change Pentium III and Celeron (Tualtin) pricing in order to totally spare itself from its own legacy so to let the new Celerons to fully replace the old line of processors.
Accompanied by the old CPUs, D815EFV, D815EEA2 and D815EPEA2 mainboards for Socket 370 processors based on i815 will be discontinued. Apparently, Socket 423 D850MD and D850MV powered by i850 will also be cancelled. As for the novelties, Intel will unveil its D845GVAD2 mainboard that seems to be the first to make use of i845GV core-logic. I will remind you that the mentioned chipset is the successor of i845GL, featuring 400/533MHz Quad-pumped bus and up to 2GB of PC2700 memory support. The board itself will have no AGP slot, 4 PCI slots, integrated Ethernet adapter and USB 2.0 controller.
At last, on the 1st of September Intel announces a Low Profile version of their Gigabit Desktop Adapter (PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter).