Intel Shrinks Chip, Hits Milestone

Chip announcements galore from the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany. Intel has produced prototypes of high-density memory chips — that support nearly eight times as many transistors as today’s Pentium 4 — using an advanced manufacturing process, and will use the technology in faster microprocessors scheduled for introduction in the second half of next year. Advanced Micro Devices is ready to start shipping Athlon processors, code-named Thoroughbred, made using a 0.13-micron process to customers later this month