600MHz Celeron to ship next month

Intel will unveil its next generation of low cost Celeron chips on March 29, company sources said.

The 566MHz and 600MHz Celerons will debut with a number of improvements to speed performance, including a move up from the 0.25 micron manufacturing process to the 0.18 process for increased clock speed.

Intel will also add the Intel SSE (single-instruction, multiple data extensions) multimedia instruction set, sources said.

A 633MHz and 667MHz Celeron are reportedly planned for release in late April, with a 700MHz version likely by the end of the first half of this year.

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