Intel Sees One Trillion Dollars In Industry E-Commerce Revenues By 2002

Intel Pentium® III Processor Performance and Technical Details Disclosed

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 23, 1999 – Intel Corporation today outlined its vision of a billion Internet-connected PCs and millions of servers generating one trillion dollars of annual e-commerce revenues within the next few years.

In a joint keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum, Paul Otellini, executive vice president and general manager, Intel Architecture Business Group, and Albert Yu, senior vice president and general manager, Intel Microprocessor Product Group, said that by the year 2002, it is estimated that annual e-commerce industry revenues will top one trillion dollars. They described how Intel is adjusting its product plans and designs to take advantage of this projected Internet-based commerce growth.

"The Internet is now the single most important growth driver in the computer industry," Otellini said. "The Internet is as important to Intel's future as silicon was in our past."

"The new Pentium® III processor is the first Intel processor designed specifically to power a new Internet experience," said Yu. "The Pentium III processor incorporates new technologies such as internet Streaming SIMD Extensions that help deliver crisper video, state-of-the-art 3-D and more vivid sound on the Web. We now have the Internet in mind with every product we design."

Pentium III Processor: Enhanced for the Internet
In their keynote, Otellini and Yu described some of the key new Internet-specific technologies and resulting performance benefits of the Pentium III processor. They demonstrated how the Pentium III processor utilizes the new internet Streaming SIMD Extensions, comprised of Memory Streaming Architecture, New Media Instructions and Concurrent SIMD-FP architecture, to enhance a PC user's computing experience. For example, a Pentium III processor at 450 MHz is 74 percent faster than a Pentium II processor at 450 MHz on CPU-intensive 3-D calculations, as shown by Ziff-Davis' 3DWinbench99*, Lighting and Transformation Test. For further performance information, visit www.intel.com/procs/perf.

Otellini and Yu also described how Intel is helping to transform the Internet into a 3-D, interactive environment by working with over 200 companies to deliver applications that will use the technology within the Pentium III processor to enhance today's PC Internet experience. They also outlined new specifics of the Pentium III processor's serial number feature, a technology designed to address the security needs of the Internet.

Intel today also disclosed the technical details of the processor's new internet Streaming SIMD Extensions.

Internet-Enhanced Products for All Market Segments
Otellini and Yu also disclosed plans to enhance Intel's strategy of designing specific products for particular market segments by introducing its new Internet and process technologies into several new desktop, server, workstation and mobile products in 1999. Intel plans include:

• The introduction of the Pentium III processor at speeds of 450 and 500 MHz for Performance PCs on Feb. 26, 1999. Intel also plans to introduce a Pentium III processor at 550 MHz in the second quarter of the year.
• The introduction of the Pentium III Xeon™ processors at 500 and 550 MHz is targeted for the first quarter of 1999. These processors will deliver enhanced Internet software and application performance to mid-range and higher servers and workstations.
• In the second half of the year, Intel will introduce mobile Pentium III processors that will bring new technologies and performance benefits to the mobile market segment.
• The first product to be manufactured on the 0.18 micron process will be a mobile Pentium II processor. This product was demonstrated during the keynote presentation.

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