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Intel launches portable processors

Twelve lovely new chips, no fish though...

By Ben King

Published: 2 October 2001 17:20 BST

Intel has launched twelve new processors for portable computers squeezed into ultra-small packages using miniaturising technology.

The processors are made up of chips that are 0.13 microns, less than a thousandth of a millimetre across. These are the first portable processors to use the new technology.

The new chips range from the 733MHz Celeron that will sell for $75 to the $722 1.2GHz Pentium 3.

AMD also announced a faster version of its Duron chip in a bid to keep up with Intel.

AMD's new 1.1GHz Duron will wholesale at $103, exactly the same price as Intel's 1.1GHz Celeron.

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