Intel's Tillamook and Beyond

We've seen a glimpse of Tillamook's performance leap (or lack thereof, in some cases). Many of the systems we tested, though, were preproduction units, so subsequent driver improvements should make a world of difference. However, sources at several notebook companies said that battery life should be extended by as much as an hour through Tillamook's low power consumption. Why? Tillamook is the first chip Intel is manufacturing on a smaller 0.25-micron process, which keeps power consumpt ion and heat to a minimum. While Tillamook brings up notebook speed a notch, users likely won't see increases in performance thresholds until the second half of 1998, when Intel ships the mobile version of the Pentium II (code-named Deschutes).