by Anna Filatova
03/24/2002 | 05:20 PM
Intel announced the launching of Low Voltage Pentium III processor with 800MHz core clock for thin, low-power "ultra-dense" blade servers (for instance, 1U servers). As you can guess easily, this CPU is a version of the well-known server Pentium III-S CPUs with low Vcore (1.15V against 1.45V), and hence low power consumption (it was reduced down to 11.2W). All the other specs remained the same as those of Pentium III-S: 0.13micron manufacturing technology, 512KB L2 cache, dual-processor configurations support, etc.
LV Pentium III 800MHz CPU is designed in Micro-FCBGA package and consumes maximum 11.2W. The curious thing about it is the fact that Intel recommends to use i815E chipset together with this CPU, which doesn’t officially support dual-processor configurations (at least this has been the case until recently). Unfortunately, the price of the new CPU, hasn’t been announced yet.