Intel, said it will announce on Monday that it is shipping its fastest Pentium III processors yet, running at clock speeds of 750 and 800 megahertz, and taking the speed crown away from arch-rival AMD Inc. "They want to have the bragging rights to the fastest chip in the new millennium," said Ashok Kumar, an analyst at US Bancorp Piper Jaffray, adding that Intel had been targeting sometime in the first half of next year to ship 800 megahertz Pentium IIIs.?Will this be just another peice of buggy hardware they release to early so they can beat AMD Inc. or will we yet see the fastest consumer CPUs? Read More...
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