November 8, 1999 Web posted at: 11:47 a.m. EST (1647 GMT) by Terho Uimonen

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(IDG) -- Intel will launch its long-awaited 820 chipset on Nov. 15, the opening day of the Comdex trade show held in Las Vegas, a spokeswoman at Intel's U.K. office has confirmed.

Among the new features in the 820 chipset are support for Rambus' speedy memory interface technology, a faster 133-MHz system bus, and 4x Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP). Chipsets are key components found on PC motherboards, the printed circuit boards that define a system's functions.

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The faster system bus speed will allow PC vendors to launch new models with the recently introduced 733-MHz Pentium III processor, Intel's fastest processor to date.

Intel in late September -- only days before the original launch date -- was forced to delay the introduction of the 820 chipset when a Rambus-related glitch was found.

The last minute delay caused grousing among PC vendors who had to put their system plans on ice.

Pricing information was not available.

Terho Uimonen is Stockholm correspondent for the IDG News Service.