Intel will release its mobile Pentium 4Ms towards the end of this quarter, with the first processors being 1.70GHz, 1.60GHz, 1.50GHz and 1.40GHz chips.
Intel sells its microprocessors to large PC customers in trays, and in boxed systems for its distributors and systems integrators to put together into notebook machines.
But it will also release these chips to its distributor and system integrator channel partners, the latest roadmaps show, with the 1.80GHz CPU being released in Q2.
Top end re-branded notebooks from second and third tier players will cost around $3,000 or more.
These mobile CPUs will come with 512K of cache, be made using the .13 micron process, and use the 400MHz PSB. They are all supported by the 845MP/MZ chipsets.