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In article <C0E0zB.DwG@inews.Intel.COM>, rskinner@mipos2.intel.com (Rod Skinner) writes:

| I think that the PC Week article states that Intel is incorporating the
| features into its main product lines.  That would imply a stronger
| commitment to these features than a product designed for portable
| computing.  

  I read that as "most of the features." As far as I can tell from the
two articles I've seen, these will still be 5v rather than 3.3v parts.
Correct me if you have access to more info than I do.

| 
| Another interesting article comparing the Intel486 SX processor and the
| Cyrix SLC is in InfoWorld December 21 page 48 "Reviews/Product
| Comparisons: 25-MHz 486 Notebooks".  InfoWorld seems to come to the
| conclusion that the Intel486 SX processors are 35% to 40% FASTER than
| the Cyrix parts.  They use several examples but the most powerful is two
| machines from TI: TravelMate 4000 WinSX/25 and the TravelMate WinSLC.
| Both weigh 6 pounds with battery.  Similarly configured machines yield
| SYSmark92 results of 75.93 (Intel486 SX) and 47.23 (Cyrix).  They
| indicate that Cyrix system "posted a SYSmark92 close to 38 percent
| slower than its 486SX/25 sibling."

  That sounds reasonable. There is a significant performance penalty in
the SLC due to smaller cache and lack of burst mode memory access. That
was one of the reasons people wanted the SL, for better performance and
lower power.

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