Intel Pentium III Processor announced

Intel Corporation today announced the Intel Pentium III processor brand name for its next generation microprocessor code-named Katmai. The new Pentium III name builds upon one of the world’s most recognized brands to convey the most powerful personal computing experience for the next generation of the Internet. Scheduled to be introduced later in the first quarter of 1999, the new Pentium III processor offers enhanced multimedia realism and is a sound investment for all of today’s and tomorrow’s applications.

For January 1999, this is the business side of gaming doing what it always does: studios forming, publishers moving money around, lawsuits flying, and everyone promising the next big thing. Somewhere in that mess, players eventually get the games. Maybe.