Intel Mobile CPU & Chipset Roadmap - November 2000

An old friend: the mobile Celeron

The trustworthy Coppermine128 based mobile Celeron processor appears to remain Intel's method of attack on the value mobile market. With speeds easily ramping from the current 700 MHz speed limit all the way up to 900 MHz in the fourth quarter of 2001.

Intel plans to adapt the Celeron to the Almador chipset upon the Almador-M's launch in the third quarter of 2001 by releasing a new breed of the Celeron: the Celeron-T. Unlike the Pentium III that will actually be based on the Tualatin core, the Celeron-T will remain a 0.18 Coppermine128 based core. The Celeron-T is simply the current Coppermine based Celeron that is able to work with the new Almador-M chipset, making it an upper level value solution. The Celeron-T will arrive clocked at 866 MHz, and will slowly move to 933 MHz by the fourth quarter of 2001.

Since the mobile Celeron line has still not hit the speed limit that the mobile Pentium III is about ready to hit, it is easy for Intel to continue production of this chip while leaving the core unchanged. It seems that Intel feels secure with the Coppermine core hitting 1.0 GHz, so it is unlikely that the Celeron solution will move to the Tualatin's new process until after the Celeron is ready to hit 1.0 GHz, which will not be until 2002.