1GHz Celeron out

GERMAN MAGAZINE c't went out to the shops a few days back and bought a 1GHz Celeron.

The 1GHz Celerons are now widely available, but Intel would prefer that most of the noise right now is how it's beaten AMD by reaching 2GHz first.

The other prong of its AMD-beating strategy, however, is to proliferate high speed Celerons while it pushes the P4 platform just as hard as it can.

You can find what c't found out when it tested the 1GHz Celeron over at this Web page.

Intel will bring higher speeds of the Celeron out later in the year as well as shrink the die to .13 micron.

Meanwhile, the paper results of the c't test have now been posted on the Ace's Hardware forum.

As we reported yesterday, Louis Burns was a little coy about talking too much about the i845 chipset, due out in a couple of weeks.

Intel's customers, such as the mighty Dell, are not so coy however. At this German site, there's a machine called the Dimension 4300, a 1.5GHz machine with 128Mb of SDRAM. This would be one that used the i845 chipset then, Louis? µ