First and foremost, Intel plans on ramping up the high-end Pentium III processor as quickly as they can get their Intel Bunnies hopping up and down. Secondly they are going to attempt to complete the transition from the Pentium II 400MHz to the Pentium III 450MHz by the end of Q3. They anticipate that the Pentium III 450MHz is going to be THE (the 'THE' is actually a direct quote folks!) hot seller in the mainstream market (judging by its current popularity and value, it's already starting to look a likely candidate indeed). The third and slightly less exciting news is that the 433 and 466MHz Celeron's are to be the 'biggest' sellers in the value segment (no we won't go into the segmentation strategy too much). Finally, it should come as no real surprise that Intel is set to ramp up Whitney (no not Britney) and Camino as quickly as possible in Q3 of this year. Actually Intel likes us to call these two the i810 and the i820 (look back to our last roadmap for more info on them).

Here's a summation of what's what:

			CPU		  CHIPSET
ENTHUSIAST (>$2k)	Pentium III 533+  BX/i820 (by September)
PERFORMANCE ($1.5-2k)	Pentium III 500	  BX
MAINSTREAM PERF $1-1.5k)Pentium III 450	  BX/ZX100/i810e
VALUE ($800 - $1000)	Pentium II 400	  BX/ZX100/i810e
VALUE ($600 - $800)	Celeron 466	  810 family
<$600			Celeron 433/400	  LX

Last time around, we hinted that Coppermine was due for a late Q3 release and by having spoken to several sources close to Intel (that phrase will come up a lot folks), it seems as though this is still the case. The .18micron CPU from Intel will not be ramped up in terms of production all that dramatically in Q4 of 1999 either. By Q1 of next year (or the millenium if you prefer to stay Y2K compliant) Intel expects just below 50% of their CPUs to be Coppermines.