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The Mobile Pentium show opens tomorrow, but notebook buyers may want to wait to buy a ticket until later this year.
Tomorrow is when Intel Corp. announces the mobile version of its 60/90-MHz Pentium chip, which will feature Voltage Reduction Technology that lets it run at 3.3V externally and 2.9V internally, reducing the chip's power draw by up to 30% and limiting its hit on battery life.
A horde of vendors will introduce machines based on the chip, but many of those products will not be fully redesigned systems. Users will still et faster performance, but few notebooks will use the Pentium-optimized Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) graphics local bus, analysts said.
No mobile-oriented PCI chip sets are shipping now. Of the products to be announced tomorrow, only Hewlett-Packard Co.'s OmniBook 5000 will combine the new chip with PCI. HP will use Opti, Inc.'s Viper...