Celeron to Move to Coppermine Core In Y2K

Celeron to Move to Coppermine Core In Y2K landed today, giving players another thing to circle on the calendar.

In a move sure to confound retail sales of its flagship processer even more, Intel announced that next year, the Celeron will be based on the Pentium III Coppermine core.

Spec-designed to have a full 128K of CPU-speed cache, the KMI SSE instruction set, 100Mhz Front Side Bus, and to use .18 micron die, the new Celerons will debute next year at 550 to 600MHz. The P3 will feature twice as much on-die cache, faster clockspeeds, and the 133Mhz FSB of the 820 chipset.

PC hardware is moving stupid fast right now, and this is one more part of that arms race.