Intel Boosts Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor Family

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2004 - Intel Corporation today introduced the Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 548 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology¹ for the portability market segment. This processor is designed for larger-sized notebook PCs, also known as "desktop replacements," that typically feature large screens, full-size keyboards and multiple drives. Notebooks based on the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 supporting HT Technology allow users to take advantage of multithreaded and processor-intensive multimedia applications in a portable form factor.

The Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 supporting HT Technology is built on Intel's industry-leading 90nm process technology, and offers other features such as a 1MB Level 2 cache, 13 new Streaming SIMD 3 Extensions (SSE3), enhancements to the Intel® NetBurst® microarchitecture, and a processor speed of 3.33 GHz. The product also offers such power management features as support for Enhanced Intel Speedstep® technology, deep sleep and deeper sleep that enables lower thermals than its desktop counterpart, providing more reliable system performance in a notebook. The Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor 548 supporting HT Technology works with the Intel® 852GME and Intel® 852PM chipsets.

In 1,000-unit quantities, the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor 548 supporting HT Technology is available at $262.

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¹Hyper-Threading Technology requires a computer system with a Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology and a HT Technology enabled chipset, BIOS and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. Visit www.intel.com/info/hyperthreading for more information, including details on which processors support HT Technology.

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