Intel to Unveil New Pentium 4-Based Chips

Intel Corp. is expected today to unveil a new line of Pentium 4-based chips for the $55-billion U.S. server market.

The chips, called Xeon, run 30% to 80% faster than the current Intel crop and feature a new technology called hyperthreading, which boosts performance by allowing each chip to manage two separate streams of data simultaneously.

The announcement is part of the Santa Clara, Calif., semiconductor giant’s ongoing effort to diversify its business beyond consumer desktop computers.

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Alex Pham