The performance gap between Pentium desktops and mobile Pentium notebooks should shrink this fall, thanks to Intel's new 120-MHz Pentium for mobile computers.
Like Intel's other mobile Pentiums, which run at 75 and 90 MHz, the 120-MHz Pentium employs voltage-reduction technology to run at 2.9 V internally as it talks to other components at 3.3 V externally. However, the 120-MHz version is the first mobile processor to be built on Intel's 0.35-micron manufacturing process, which allows for a 3.3-million-transistor chip that's about the size of your pinkie fingernail.
The new chip has a typical power dissipation of 2.5 to 3.5 W while in use, and less than 1 W while idle. Vendors (e.g., Intel) have developed new, complementary, high-performance Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) chip sets.
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k for many notebook vendors to announce 120-MHz Pentium-based portables this fall. "The 120-MHz Pentium brings mobile systems closer to being true desktop replacements," says Jason Glover, portable marketing manager at Gateway 2000. "It delivers better performance at equivalent heat and power dissipation as previous mobile Pentiums."
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