Intel rolls out the Tualatin
  06/19/2001 5:55:16 PM MDT Albuquerque, Nm
  By Dustin D. Brand; Owner AMO

The new Tualatin is a Pentium III manufactured using a .13 Micron Process.   Intel confirmed today that it has begun shipping desktop, mobile, and server versions of its next-generation Pentium III processor, code-named "Tualatin."

  Tualatin is Intel's first processor manufactured using a 0.13-micron process technology, which refers to the dimension of circuits etched on the surface of chips. The majority of Intel's current processors are manufactured using a 0.18-micron process (code named Coppermine), and the new .13 Micron process should allow Intel to make processors that run faster, generate less heat, and consume less power.

  The new PIII Tualatin processor will begin shipping in Servers, where dual processors running in parallel allow a web server to run much faster. IBM announced it will be among the first to support the new chips, with plans to release a Tualatin server next week, a spokeswoman said.

  The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker has actually been shipping Tualatin processors to system vendors since the end of May, although they were hard to find.

  The server versions of Tualatin run at 1.13GHz, have 512KB of Level 2 cache memory, and supports SMP (symmetric multiprocessing). SMP allows multiple processors to run a single copy of an operating system; in Tualatin's case, the chip will be available in two-processor servers, the source said. Only Intel's Pentium III Xeon and 64-bit Itanium processor can be used in systems with more than two processors, IE quad, and 8 processor systems.

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