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Intel Celeron 366 and 400
Speed: 366 and 400 MHz
What is this made for: Budget Desktops, brings down prices of high end processor computers
What's nice about this: Has close to 400 MHz pentium II performance, for only around $1,500
Problems: Neither chips have the new Katmai instructions included
Intel Celeron For Notebooks
Speed: 266 and 300 MHz
What this is made for: Subnotebooks and low-cost notebooks
Whats nice about this: The best part about this chip is the LOW cost, this will start to lower fast processor notebooks into the $1,600 range
Problems: Not sure about how long batteries will be able to last on this
Intel Pentium II Katmai
Speed: 450 and 500 MHz
What this is made for: High end power desktops
What's nice about this: Katmai uses 70 new CPU instructions for speeding up graphics and video, and audio processing
Problems: Security issues and the programs used with the new processor need to be optimized for use with the new instructions, which makes it very similar to MMX which was a total flop
Intel Pentium II 333 and 355 for notebooks
Speed: 333 and 366 MHz
What this is made for: High end and power notebooks
What's nice about this: For the notebooks the CPU uses on-board secondary cache which could make it be able to outperform comparable CPU speeds on desktops
Problems: Price....this will cost some major dough
AMD Sharptooth
Speed: Most likely 450 MHz, but maybe 450 MHz
What this is made for: First it will be for the power desktops, then notebooks later
What's nice about this: CPU uses an on-board 256KB secondary cache, which may make it be better then comparable Pentium II's on business programs
Problems: It is too early to judge multimedia performance
Speed: 350 and 366 MHz
What this is made for: Low-cost desktop solutions
What's nice about this: With this chip from IBM it can make high speed computer prices cost as low as $900 with a monitor
Problems: The main problem with this chip is it will NOT be made to have very good speeds on graphic programs or 3D games, so this is mainly for the business user
Speed: 233 and 266 MHz
What this is made for: First it will be made for low-cost desktops than later in the future for low-cost notebooks
What's nice about this: Rise Technology claims to have used MMX instructions to the maximum and soft DVD playback will be very good, plus this chip can be used in sub $1,000 systems
Problems: This chip has no on-board secondary cache, which can improve performance greatly, and the company is a very small company out of the many companies out right now