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News Burst: Intel delays retooled PIII until next year
News The 1.13 GHz PIII chip, shipped on 31 July, was recalled as a result of technical problems -- officials said the company was recalling the chip due to a problem that could cause certain applications to freeze.
[October 11, 2000, 14:16]
UK firm shipping 'real' PIII-based systems
News A sales rep for Digital Networks UK said that his company has obtained genuine Intel PIII chips "from a supplier who imports them from the US. The company is now selling 500MHz and 450MHz PIII-based systems under its Deskstar, Playstar, Workstar SI...
[February 11, 1999, 11:47]
Is Upgrading To a PIII Worth It?
News Here's why I recommend against trying to upgrade your old system to the PIII: Will I be able to upgrade to the PIII at year's end when they get up around 1 GHZ, or will I need a new motherboard? At the time of this writing, of course, the PIII is...
[May 17, 1999, 9:44]
Athlon beats PIII 600MHz by nearly 30 percent
News As we found in testing for this story, the Athlon just squeaked past the PIII on business applications, as shown by our ZD Winstone 99 benchmark tests, as well as on some 3-D apps as shown by our ZD 3D WinMark 99 benchmark tests (see ZD Benchmarks...
[August 9, 1999, 12:16]
Intel delays launch of recalled PIII
News Intel is gearing up to launch its next-generation Pentium 4 chip as soon as next month, but the chip maker won't ship its recalled 1.13GHz Pentium III chip until next year. The 1.13GHz Pentium III was recalled in August due to a problem that could...
[October 11, 2000, 15:23]
700MHz PIII's to ship in Oct, as Merced wows PC makers
News Plenty, according to Craig Barrett, Intel Corp.s CEO, who spends Friday nights surfing the Web to find out the conditions at his favorite Montana fishing spots. Barrett put down the fly rod to deliver the Intel Developers Forum opening keynote...
[September 1, 1999, 9:01]
ECTS: Intel pushes PIII Web theme
News PC gamers are undoubtedly out-numbered as ever at this year's ECTS show but Intel stands defiant, putting the emphasis very much on the online capabilities of its Pentium III platform. The chip-supremo took the opportunity to launch the third-theme...
[September 6, 1999, 11:39]
News Burst: Intel unveils PIII notebooks
News The Santa Clara California company Tuesday introduced two mobile Pentium III processors, running at 600MHz and 650MHz. It also reduced prices on existing mobile chips. The new mobile Pentium IIIs are the first to offer Intel's battery-saving...
[January 18, 2000, 16:08]
First tests: Mobile P4 slower than PIII?
News Intel's Pentium 4 processor, which launched on Monday, is unlikely to give much of a performance boost over the mobile Pentium III for general office applications, according to first tests conducted by ZDNet UK labs, but it should be significantly...
[March 5, 2002, 17:48]
Intel unveils last PIII-based Xeon
News Intel on Tuesday released a 900-MHz Xeon processor for servers, the last member of the chip family that will be based on the Pentium III design. The new chip contains a 2MB secondary cache, a reservoir of memory close to the processor for quick...
[March 21, 2001, 7:48]
Micron shows off DDR PIII chipset
News At the Intel Developer Forum this week, Micron Technology is demonstrating its prototype chipset for Pentium III servers using DDR SDRAM memory, a high-speed memory standard going head-to-head with the more expensive Rambus RDRAM championed by Intel.
[February 27, 2001, 13:10]
A 1,000MHz PIII? Now that's a chip!
News Despite an announcement of a Pentium III running at 1,002MHz on Tuesday, customers will still have to wait until late in the year 2000 -- or even 2001 -- before they see such speeds on the desktop, said execs at Intel Corp.
[February 24, 1999, 10:16]
Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside?
News Intel has revealed that each Pentium III chip will carry a unique serial number that can be read by the computer's software. Intel claims that the serial number will facilitate e-commerce, promote "digital content protection," prevent...
[May 17, 1999, 10:04]
HP desktop trio embraces PIII
News Although many PC makers view the Pentium III as merely a chance to take advantage of the latest speed boost, some, such as Hewlett-Packard, will use the CPU to launch entirely new models. HP will announce this week, at Intel's Pentium III Preview...
[February 16, 1999, 13:30]
A Year Ago: Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside?
News Intel has revealed that each Pentium III chip will carry a unique serial number that can be read by the computer's software. Intel claims that the serial number will facilitate e-commerce, promote "digital content protection," prevent...
[May 17, 2000, 7:01]
Intel demos 1.002 GHz PIII
News The processor was just a technical demo, and Intel did not describe what sort of cooling system was needed to attain that speed. Also during the announcement, Intel unveiled a mobile Pentium III processor built on its next-generation 0.18-micron...
[February 23, 1999, 17:05]
Intel ships 933MHz PIII
News The new processor, for desktop PCs, is priced at $744 (£505) in 1,000-unit quantities. What do you think? Tell the Mailroom. And read what others have said. Take me to the CPU Roadmap: AMD vs. Intel
[May 24, 2000, 13:54]
End to the 800MHz PIII bottleneck?
News Have you got your 800MHz Pentium III PC yet? Many consumers have been waiting, and then waiting some more, for PCs configured with Intel's 800MHz Pentium III chip ever since its launch in late December.
[February 10, 2000, 9:11]
Pentium III gets a new lease on life
News Intel is set to continue revising its Pentium III processor, even after the introduction of the Pentium 4, with a 1.13GHz PIII scheduled to arrive this week. The report from lectronic Buyer's News, which cites analyst Bert McComas of InQuest and...
[July 24, 2000, 13:04]
Pentium 4: New chip, old problems
News So while the first cut of the Pentium 4 at 1.4GHz isn't that much of a step up from the top PIII, it has a lot more room for improvement. In some ways, this is good -- the PIII design is running out of steam rapidly -- but Intel's slavish devotion...
[November 20, 2000, 6:12]
