Intel Extends Performance Leadership With New Pentium® 4 Processors

Enables Higher Quality Digital Media, More Productive Business

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 6, 2002 - Intel Corporation today introduced new versions of the world's highest performance desktop microprocessor - the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor - enabling richer experiences with broadband content, games, digital music, photos and movies, while helping businesses maximize productivity and take advantage of new web service environments.

"The latest Pentium 4 processors deliver the versatility to improve everything from gaming to the use of cutting-edge business tools," said Louis Burns, vice president and general manager, Desktop Platforms Group at Intel. "For example, PC's based on the new Pentium 4 processor at 2.53 GHz can convert songs into MP3 format almost six times quicker than the fastest PC's of three years ago - a tremendous time savings for end users."

The penetration rate of broadband to U.S. homes is faster than that of color TVs, VCRs, and cell phones. With the growth of broadband in homes, high-performance platforms enable users to take advantage of new high-bandwidth content.

Business environments are evolving as well. In a recent survey of chief technology officers, 88 percent identified XML as the software technology that had the greatest impact on the enterprise in 2001. Systems based on the Pentium 4 processor at 2.53 GHz process XML data over three times faster than today's installed base of PC's operating at 500 MHz or below.

All three new processors - Intel Pentium 4 processors at 2.53, 2.40, and 2.26 GHz - include a 533 MHz system bus. Previous Pentium 4 processors interact with the rest of the system using a 400 MHz system bus. Intel also introduced the 850E chipset, which is designed to operate at the new system bus speed. Systems based on the new products are available immediately from computer makers worldwide.

The internal design of the Pentium 4 processor continues to provide greater performance to end users, with higher frequency versions expected later this year.

Performance For Today's and Tomorrow's Software and Broadband Environments
PC's based on these new platforms deliver compelling improvements over typical PC's in use today. Consumers using systems based on the Pentium 4 processor at 2.53 GHz will experience two to three times higher performance for media-intensive broadband content, almost five times better performance when editing MPEG-4 video, and almost seven times higher frame rates when running today's popular gaming applications. For example, a person encoding digital video that would take four hours on an Intel Pentium III processor-based PC running at 500 MHz can now finish the job in one hour.

Pentium 4 processor 2.53 GHz-based platforms also deliver significant improvements when compared with high-end PC's of less than a year ago, which were based on the Pentium 4 processor at 1.70 GHz. Users will see more than a 40 percent performance improvement in applications such as 3D gaming and MPEG-4 video encoding.

In business, Pentium 4 processor 2.53 GHz-based systems provide the processing power for emerging Web services based on XML technology. Pentium 4 processor 2.53 GHz-based systems enable businesses to collaborate more effectively and are almost five times faster than the installed base as measured by the BAPCo* WebMark* 2001B benchmark. High-performance PCs based on the Pentium 4 processor at 2.53 GHz enable a significant advance in user productivity, with common office tasks more than five times faster than the typical client base as measured by the BAPCo* SysMark* 2002 benchmark.**

Performance, Pricing and Availability
The Pentium 4 processor at 2.53 GHz delivers the world's highest Microsoft Windows* desktop processor performance as measured by SPEC CPU* 2000 with a SPECint*_base2000 score of 882 and a SPECfp*_base2000 score of 860.

The Pentium 4 processor, with 512KB level-two cache and operating at a 533 MHz system bus speed, is available now at 2.53 GHz, 2.4 GHz and 2.26 GHz and is priced at $637, $562 and $423, respectively, in 1,000-unit quantities. The new 850E chipset is now available and is priced at $37 in 1,000-unit quantities. Intel is also shipping boxed Intel Pentium 4 processors up to 2.53 GHz and two new desktop boards, the D850EMV2 and D850EMD2, to Intel authorized distributors for system integrators worldwide.

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