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28th November 1999 Archive

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  • Last .25 Celeron slated for 10 January

    Don't cry for me, Mendocino. Sniff...

    The spate of Coppermine Pentium IIIs that Intel will intro on January 10th next will walk hand-in-hand into the daylight with last .25 micron Celeron processor ever, a 533MHz using the 66MHz bus and with a multiplier of eight. That will, most likely, be the last appearance of a .25 micron Celeron on the Intel stage, before it …

    Business 28 Nov 1999, 09:37

  • Intel faces possible Euro block on Pentium IIIs

    Processor serial number, NSA raise their ugly mugs again

    A report from the STOA Committee of the European Union has suggested that the economic bloc look long and hard at the implications of Intel's personal serial number (PSN) embedded in the Pentium III microprocessor. (We know it's really dubbed the processor serial number, but our substitution of personal seems oh so apposite.) …

    Business 28 Nov 1999, 09:56