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Chip-making
giant Intel plans to upgrade its flagship Pentium 4 processor
for desktop computers next year and make another version available
for laptops in coming weeks. The desktop Pentium 4, code-named
Prescott, will incorporate a new technology called hyper threading
that tricks the operating system into thinking it is running
on two processors instead of one. The performance-boosting
technology, first announced last year, made its debut this
week in a line of Pentium 4 processors for servers.
The company also demonstrated a 4-Gigahertz Pentium 4, which
is expected to be available next year. Currently, the Pentium
4 line tops out at 2.2 GHz. Intel also plans to release Pentium
4-based mobile processors that run at greater than 1.5 GHz.
Laptops built with the Pentium 4-M chips are expected in the
coming weeks.
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