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Intel's fastest microprocessor launched

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KARACHI: Intel Corporation's chairman Andrew S. Grove inaugurated the semi-annual Intel Developer Forum by demonstrating the company's fastest microprocessor: a chip running at 1.5 gigahertz (GHz), or 1.5 billion clock cycles per second, at room temperature. Based on a new microarchitecture from Intel, the chip is code-named "Willamette".

According to a press release issued by Intel Pakistan Corporation on Friday, Dr. Grove also demonstrated the first production-level PentiumO 111 processor-based systems that run at 1 GHz, to be introduced in limited quantities shortly.