While word of Banias' speeds has leaked out, much of the technology behind the chip, which was designed in Israel, remains under wraps. The chip will include a cache -- an internal reservoir of memory for rapid data access -- but the size is unknown. Krewell predicts it will be at least 512KB but could be as high as 1MB of some versions of Banias. How it resembles other Intel chips also remains a mystery. The chip will run the same software as the Pentium III and Pentium 4, but it's not sure which processor Banias will resemble more, if either. Intel maintains that Banias' design was created from the ground up. The ultimate brand name is also unknown. Engineers at Intel casually refer to it as "Mobilium", said sources, but that is probably not the final product name. "Hopefully it is better than Celeron," one source said. "I heard Duron (the brand name of an AMD chip being discontinued) is unavailable." Details will likely come out at the Intel Developer Forum in September and the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California, in October.
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