Tualatin makes formal debut
 
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Intel last week formally introduced Tualatin, a low-power processor that will be used in laptops and equipment such as server blades that require low-power, cool operation.
The Tualatin Pentium III processor operates at over 1 GHz and is built to a smaller architecture than the Pentium 4, Celeron and Xeon, Intel said. The Tualatin's 0.13-micron architecture lets the processor consume 40% less power and run up to 20% faster than processors that used the 0.18-micron architecture.
Compaq and Toshiba have already said they will use the Tualatin chip in mobile products. IBM, Dell, HP and RLX Technologies may use Tualatin in their server blades. Compaq also has announced that it will use the Tualatin processor in its QuickBlade server later this year.
Compaq's QuickBlade servers will feature error-correcting memory and full support for the x86 instruction set without emulation.
Tualatin competes with Transmeta's Crusoe processor, currently used in RLX blades, and with chips AMD is making that should be available by year end.
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Deni Connor is a senior editor at Network World covering storage, SANs, Novell and Novell-related products. You can reach her at dconnor@nww.com.
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