AMD Duron 750 MHz + and Athlon 1.1 GHz
AMD's new Duron 750 MHz and Athlon 1.1GHz are now shipping through AMD authorized distribution channels. These new processors are available as tray (or OEM) products. Processor In a Box (PIB) products will be available shortly.

Today, AMD decreased certain processor costs to distributors. Most new prices are reflected at www.escstore.com.

Intel reduces prices on some Pentium III
On Sunday, Intel reduced cost to Intel authorized distributors for Pentium III 667 MHz and lower. Price decreases for FCPGA processors were as follows:

Pentium III 667 MHz 16%
Pentium III 650 MHz 16%
Pentium III 600EB MHz 28%
Pentium III 600E MHz 28%

This price decrease reflects Intel's move toward increasing processor speeds in the desktop market. ESC Technologies no longer offers these processor speeds. ESC offers Celeron processors and Pentium III 700 MHz processors and above.

Intel developer conference
August 22-24

The Intel Developer Forum Conference (IDF) is a semiannual, three-day conference targeted at business and consumer desktop, mobile, workstation and server hardware manufacturers, as well as peripheral and software vendors working on advanced computing platform solutions.

The theme for IDF Fall 2000 is "Powering the Net. Connecting the Net." The conference includes more than 150 technical sessions and hands-on labs. For more information, visit the IDF Web site at http://developer.intel.com/design/idf.

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HP And Intel Release IA-64 Developer's Kit For Lin
Hewlett-Packard Company and Intel Corporation today released a free IA-64 developer's kit that enables the Linux community to develop, test, debug and run IA-64 applications for the upcoming Intel� Itanium� processor. HP is committed to delivering Itanium processor-based servers and workstations that will support Linux and other operating systems.

• Remember when...?
  While we were browsing through whatisnew.com stats, we noticed a large number of visitors to an old page. April 1, 1998 we posted a little April Fool's joke "Industry shocked by Pentium� III announcement" (remember, it's April 1st) http://www.whatisnew.com/98/4198a.htm.

  In light of current events, we ask ourselves if much has changed?

• Now it's Intel's turn to hit 1GHz mark
  "While Intel Corp. concedes it lost the race to deliver the first 1GHz processors to the market, the chip maker today claimed it has once again retaken the microprocessor speed crown with the release of a 1GHz Pentium III." --PC Week