Intel Corporation today announced it is bringing its flagship Pentium® 4 processor technology to mobile PCs for the first time. With the introduction of the mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor-M, designed specifically for mobile computers, PC makers are delivering full-size and thin-and-light systems with outstanding performance, long battery life and wireless capabilities. Intel also announced the mobile Intel® 845chipset family, supporting double data rate (DDR) memory. Together, the new processor and chipset deliver a significant boost in performance while maintaining low average power consumption, helping to deliver extended battery life. The new products are shipping in volume worldwide with systems available from leading PC makers. "The introduction of Pentium 4 processor-M brings to mobile computing the performance users have come to expect from the Pentium 4 processor," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president, Mobile Platforms Group. "Together with the Intel 845 chipset and advanced power management technologies, this delivers an optimal balance of high performance and long battery life for today's mobile PCs."

The mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor-M at 1.7 GHz is the fastest mobile processor available today for mobile PCs. High performance is provided by the Intel® NetBurst™ Micro-Architecture, consisting of: a 400 MHz processor system bus, Hyper Pipelined Technology, an Execution Trace Cache, Rapid Execution Engine, and 144 Streaming SIMD instructions (SSE2). It also includes a 512k on-die L2 cache. The mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor-M operates at low voltage, allowing it to consume minimal power. The Intel® 845 Chipset family includes two new chipsets, the 845MP and 845MZ. Both are designed, validated and optimized for the mobile Pentium 4 Processor-M. The Intel 845MP supports external graphics and is available today. The 845MZ will be available later this year. The Intel 845MP offers external AGP 4X graphics support, a 400MHz processor system bus, and DDR 266 MHz SDRAM for up to 1GB memory support.

In 1,000-unit quantities, the mobile Pentium 4 processor-M at 1.7 and 1.6 GHz are priced at $508 and $401 respectively. In 1,000 unit quantities the Intel 845MP chipset is $43.00.