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 During a conference call here on Tuesday, Intel Corp. unveiled what it called a “one-generation ahead” chip-manufacturing strategy designed to keep the microprocessor giant one step ahead of its rivals.
  
Intel also announced it would deliver its long-awaited, 3-GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor in the fourth quarter of 2002. The company also disclosed that its initial 90-nm processor will “scale” to 5-GHz, with the follow-on chip due to operate at 6-GHz.  
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