Intel plans to open the floodgates on a new generation of Pentium processors in the next few weeks, but its next chip for notebooks will not be among them.

The chipmaker said on Wednesday that it has pushed back the launch of Dothan, its next Pentium M notebook processor, in order to make changes to the chip's circuitry.

The Dothan chip had been expected to make its debut in mid-February. It is now scheduled to ship in the second quarter of 2004, Intel President Paul Otellini said on Wednesday during a conference call to discuss Intel's fourth-quarter earnings.

Validation tests turned up a glitch that would hamper the manufacturability of the chip, according to Otellini. Dothan is Intel's first notebook chip to be manufactured on a 90-nanometer process.

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German police are investigating after an angry man returned a computer he had just bought saying it was packed with small potatoes instead of computer parts.

The store replaced the computer free of charge but became suspicious when he returned a short time later with another potato-filled computer casing, police in the western city of Kaiserslautern said on Monday.

"The second time he said he didn't need a computer any more and asked for his money back in cash," a police spokesman said.

Police are now investigating the man for fraud.

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