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Copyright 2000, Solid
Electric Inc.
Seems after all the flurry of the Intel
Developer Forum, it's become clear that Intel is setting it's sight
on the Flip-Chip PGA format for their future CPU lineups. After all,
the 1.5 GHz Willamette prototype chip was in an FC-PGA form factor,
and Intel is hoping to see every Pentium III to be in the FC-PGA
form factor by the end of 2000. Just about everyone who has had an
experience with an FC-PGA has been impressed thus far, not only
because they're small and light, but they're just as powerful as the
Slot-1 processors that are twice the size.
The 650 MHz FC-PGA chips found their way into our offices early
last week, and frankly we're as amazed to see them as you all are.
After all, these chips haven't even been announced yet, and Intel
just announced shipments of the 600 MHz FC-PGA at the IDF.
Nevertheless, these chips are here and they're mighty fast. They run
at a standard 6.5x multiplier, 100 MHz front side bus, and we didn't
have any problems popping them into a socket and running them on
just about any BX motherboard. Down below is the 650E chip we took
for a spin, waiting quietly in its socket for some overclocking
action.
 A closer look at this particular chip reveals the stepping codes, showing that it's a 650 MHz chip/256K on-die L2 cache, and was made in Malaysia. A small chart from Intel is displayed below the stepping codes with instructions on how to read it correctly.
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