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| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of May 20, 2001 |
Older News |
| May 25, 2001 | |
AMD allies with Transmeta
|
Advanced Micro Devices has forged a key alliance in its battle
for dominance in the microprocessor market. Transmeta, a Silicon Valley upstart that specializes in low-power microprocessors, has thrown its support behind technology AMD has developed as the framework for the next generation of computers. Specifically, Transmeta has licensed AMD's "x86-64" microprocessor architecture and a complementary technology called "HyperTransport," which is used to improve the speed at which data can move between a system's microprocessor and peripheral chips. |
Transmeta to license AMD technologyBy John G. Spooner May 24, 2001 |
Transmeta will transplant some of AMD's processor technologies
into future Crusoe chips. The chipmakers--long rumored to be fostering a close relationship--will announce a licensing pact Friday that will allow Transmeta to use AMD's x86-64 and HyperTransport technologies in forthcoming chips. HyperTransport will likely be the first technology put to use by Transmeta. The technology is designed to replace the PCI bus, which shuttles information between the processor and other parts of a computer system, with a faster data pipeline. |
Intel asks workers to take unpaid leaveBy Ian Fried and David Becker May 23, 2001 |
A slowdown in the once-blazing flash-memory business has
prompted chip giant Intel to ask some workers to take two
weeks of unpaid time off this summer. Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said the offer is strictly voluntary and applies only to workers in select jobs at Intel's plant in Rio Rancho, N.M., near Albuquerque, which makes both traditional logic chips and flash memory, which is used in cell phones, digital cameras and MP3 players. |
Italian court finds Micron did not infringe Rambus patentsBy Jack Robertson May 24, 2001 |
Rambus Inc.'s synchronous-interface patent infringement case
against Micron Technology Inc. was dismissed Thursday by a
judge in Monza, Italy, a Micron spokesman confirmed today. An expert technical panel set up by the Italian court last week had upheld the validity of the Rambus patents, which the Los Altos, Calif., company claimed Micron had infringed. However, the judge Thursday overruled that finding and determined that Micron had not violated the patents. |
AMD claims notebook design wins for microprocessorsMay 23, 2001 |
AMD late Tuesday said that NEC, Sony Corp. and Fujitsu will
sell new notebook PCs based on its Athlon 4 and mobile AMD
Duron processors. NEC plans to use the 1GHz mobile AMD Athlon 4 processor in its "LaVie G" series, AMD said. An 800MHz mobile AMD Duron processor will also be featured in the "LaVie G" series, as well as the "LaVie L" series. These consumer systems are expected to ship later this month, AMD said. |
Via to unveil new processorBy Bloomberg News May 23, 2001 |
Via Technologies, which is trying to challenge Intel as a
processor maker, said it will introduce a new CPU at a
computer show in Taiwan next month. In an invitation to a June 5 event at the Computex trade show here, Via said it will display a smaller, faster version of its C3, a processor for computers that cost $500 or less. Without a new chip, analysts say, Taiwan's biggest chip designer will probably not sell the 5 million processors this year as previously expected. "Via's real hope is with the C3," said Joey Cheng, an analyst with Indosuez W.I. Carr Securities in Taipei. "Most of the units should be out by the second half." |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Senior Intel dude moonlights at AMDBy Andrew Thomas May 23, 2001 |
ONE OF OUR favourite Intel veeps, 'Kicking' Pat Gelsinger has
been known to be somewhat disparaging in the past of AMD's
efforts in the chip arena. So imagine then our surprise to discover that it looks very much as if KPG is moonlighting at the Imitator's new self-help website here. Ask AMD is a new online technical support service, providing instant answers about AMD's processor products. It has a mascot - almost unbelievably called 'Chip' - who attempts to answer user queries. Is Chip in some way related to KPG? Judge for yourself from the two photographs below… |
Intel alleged to
violate first amendment
|
WE'RE NOT QUITE SURE how we missed this first time round, but
Ken Hamidi, he who runs Face Intel, got an extra boost from
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a week back. The ACLU filed a "friend of the court brief" on Hamidi's behalf in a US court. This follows a decision by a previous court that Hamidi had spammed Intel and its employees with a number of email messages complaining about its work policies. |
Intel calls for work without payBy our US Correspondent May 23, 2001 |
Every weekday our intrepid US correspondent takes a sharp look
at the news of the day - not necessarily technical nor
business - as seen through other site's eyes. Intel and Philips are feeling the pinch, according to this piece here, which says the semiconductor firms want people to take time off without pay. Intel wants Fab 11 folk to take two weeks unpaid holiday. Philips wants people to do much more than that. If they're not careful, these IT companies might cause the idea of trade unions to start again. |
Waste the real secret of AMD's successBy our US Correspondent May 24, 2001 |
WE ALWAYS WONDERED just how AMD managed to pull off its
successful turnabout over the last few years. And now we know,
it's waste management. That, at least, is the message that a Web site is purveying. Apparently, AMD quickly realised that the risks facing it weren't the ones you and I might suppose - you know La Intella, how much chip capacity it has, the volatile nature of its CEO or the technical abilities of the Palomino or its 760MP chipset. |
Intel to increase Rambus rebateBy Mike Magee May 23, 2001 |
CHIP GIANT INTEL will cut prices on a selected range of its
processors next week but, as we reported yesterday, its
favourite platform for the Pentium 4 will always be Rambus and
its RIMMs. According to documents sent to its system integrator channel, Intel will increase the rebates on RIMMs when it makes its price changes on the 27th. It is doing so through the Intel Channel Rebate (ICR), and these are the details: |
Intel's DDR development 'scrapped'By Andrew Thomas May 23, 2001 |
AS WE HINTED several weeks ago, here, all is not well in DDR
land. Now hardware site OCWorkbench claims that Taiwanese mobo
makers including Asus, Gigabyte and MSI are stopping work on
DDR mobos. The claim is that sales of DDR boards are poor and, combined with the plummeting prices of Pentium 4 processors, sales of Rambus/P4 systems are climbing rapidly while DDR is in the doldrums. With PC133 SDRAM mobos now mainstream, high end DDR boards are being squeezed out of the market, says OCW. |
How low can the memory Dramurai go?By Marco Fumagalli May 23, 2001 |
STRANGE THINGS are happening in the memory market in these
days, with all of the manufacturers playing now playing "the
last man standing game, after all their efforts to make memory
prices rise in the last few months have failed to show any
appreciable result. The current situation sees 128Mb chips now under US$3.00 each, down from $3.50 last week. This means that a 128Mb DIMM module of a major brand will cost you around $23/$24, while the second tier brand modules are quoted at even lower prices of $20/$21 each. |
DDR chipset prices slumpBy Tony Smith May 23, 2001 |
Taiwan's chipset makers are slashing prices on their DDR SDRAM
chipsets in response to cool demand for DDR systems, intense
rivalry between them, and the imminent arrival of Intel's
SDRAM-based chipset, the 845 aka Brookdale. So say the major mobo makers, according to a DigiTimes report. The board builders say DDR chipsets from likes of SIS, VIA and Acer Labs have recently fallen to $19-20 a pop - a fall of around $10 on the original price. The cuts have been implemented through a mix of rebates and actual reductions. |
AMD, Intel and DDRBy our LetterMeister May 24, 2001 |
A LITTLE THOUGHT came into my mind whilst reading your
article. Basically I think Intel would like DDR to die more
than Rambus does, my reasoning being this. Take a rough estimate that Intel still owns 75-85% of the CPU market. The majority of these CPU's still being based on the PIII core which tends not to like RDRAM at all. PIII based CPU's do not perform better with DDR SDRAM and hence the more expensive mobo/mem combination can not be justified. |
Nvidia and Via heading for legal tussle?By Mike Magee May 23, 2001 |
RUMOURS ARE CIRCULATING in old Taipei, that Nvidia and Via are
heading for a legal fight over alleged patent infringement in
the Crush 11 chipset. The rumours, which cannot be substantiated as we write this story, suggest that Via is considering taking action because technology incorporated in one of its chipsets which uses S3 graphics extensions. Sources suggest that Via is surprised that technology incorporated in Crush 11's Southbridge could emerge quite as quickly as it did. |
SNAP's Crushbaby: details emergeBy Fuad Abazovic May 24, 2001 |
FIRST, I REALLY THINK that Nvidia and Microsoft with the Xbox
and Sony with the PlayStation 2 are neglecting Europe. I have come to conclusion that at the USA WinHec geekfest, Nvidia did present Crush 11 and Crush 12 chipset designs among some MSI sample board with diagrams. At The Inquirer we call Nvidia's Crush and SNAP strategies the plans that dare not speak their name, after an Nvidiot denied either existed at E3 last week. |
Who says Pentium 4 runs hot?By Andrew Thomas May 22, 2001 |
INTEL FAMOUSLY frowns on overclocking, but isn't stupid enough
to pretend it doesn't exist, so if you're one of those people
who likes to keep an eye on how hot things are getting inside
your PC, Intel has a cool new piece of software just for you. Provided - reasonably enough - you have an Intel mobo, Active Monitor checks fan speeds, temperatures and voltages and gives a cheery warning before everything melts. |
Intel's Tualatin
server plans
|
THE INTEL SERVER ROADMAP we saw over someone's shoulder
yesterday certainly has one or two surprises in it. Again, it shows Intel is confident it can bang .13 micron Tualatin processors out of the door. According to the map, the 1.13GHz Tualatin (no Coppermink one now), will reach the world during the week of the 25th of June. Shortly after that, the 1.26GHz will be available - early July. |
Via concerned about Intel i830By Fuad Abazovic May 24, 2001 |
ACCORDING TO OUR FRIENDS, the S3/Via combine is very worried
about Intel's next P6 chipset also known as the i830.Some of
you may know this as Almador which will find its place in the
sun in notebook and smaller computers. This chipset will support mobile Pentium III and mobile Celeron processors and it is worrying Via, our friends say, because it apparently greatly increases integrated performance. |
"Hammer of Intel" space explainedBy Mike Magee May 23, 2001 |
THE ADDITIONAL SPACE allocated on AMD's Hammer microprocessor
is reserved for additional SMP (symmetric multiprocessing)
functions, according to sources close to the chip company. Yesterday we pointed to a piece on Ace's Hardware, translating an article in Japanese, which gave dimensions of the die of AMD's up-and-coming-some-time "Clawhammer" 64-bit chip. (See Hammer die a little square) Sources tell The Inquirer that Hammer will include north bridge functionality built into the processor. |
Intel Itanium to launch next Tuesday - says Hewlett-PackardBy Tony Smith May 24, 2001 |
Hewlett-Packard has confirmed 29 May - next Tuesday - as the
official launch date of Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor. HP will be launching servers based on Itanium on that date, we hear. Why? Because that's the day Intel will release the new chip, an HP representative let slip. To be fair, HP isn't exactly breaking any confidences here. Both IBM and Dell have unveiled Itanium-based workstations and servers during the last two or three weeks, with the intention of shipping them real soon now. |
Intel fires
re-marking dealers
|
FOUR INDIAN DEALERS who were accused of remarking genuine
Pentium III chips have been given by the bullet by the Intel
Corporation. A report in IT IQ saod that Intel has quietly removed four dealerships from Genuine Intel Dealer (GID) list - the Indian equivalent of the North American IPD scheme. Re-marking is a particular problem in the emerging Indian PC market, according to the piece, which says that some dealers have also re-marked AMD parts. |
| May 23, 2001 | |
Intel: Itanium mainly a development chipMay 22, 2001 |
Itanium-based servers for the telecommunications market will
be largely symbolic until the arrival of the chip's successor. Despite multiple delays and the stringent requirements of much of its target market, Intel still says its Itanium processor launch this year will be one of the biggest introductions of its kind. But a senior executive admitted that telecommunications companies and other businesses won't be tempted to switch their existing 64-bit systems over to IA-64 until next year. |
AMD, M-Systems To Develop Flash Data Storage ProductsMay 22, 2001 |
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and
Kfar Saba, Israel-based M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd.
today announced a strategic agreement to jointly develop
high-density flash data storage products for the mobile data
storage market. The companies said they intend to create
embedded data storage products for mobile applications by
combining AMD’s experience in manufacturing, packaging and
flash technology with M-Systems’ DiskOnChip technology. Both companies will jointly develop and market the flash data storage products, which they said would be designed to offer the functionality of a hard drive, with the characteristics of flash memory, such as low power consumption. Products that will benefit from a mobile storage device include cellular telephones, wireless devices, hand-held PCs and automotive PCs, the companies said. |
Micron-Rambus case to begin in OctoberBy David Becker May 22, 2001 |
The schedule for Micron Technology's high-stakes fraud and
patent-infringement lawsuit against memory designer Rambus has
been reset so the court can digest findings in a similar case
involving chipmaker Infineon. A U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del., was scheduled to begin hearing part of the Micron case May 31 as part of a nonjury proceeding. Instead, hearings will begin on the original date of Oct. 29, said Micron representative Sean Mahoney. The case could be worth many millions of dollars. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Great Chip Satan hell-bent on RambusBy Mike Magee May 22, 2001 |
FINANCIAL ANALYSTS ALREADY disappointed by our news that
Brookdale DDR is a phenomenon that won't happen until next
year, had better brace themselves for more news. Intel, a company with more than a little interest in scapegoat firm Rambus, is ready to shuffle out further boxed motherboards during the course of this year and next to show it believes with all of its soul and half of its heart that RIMMs beat DIMMs. |
P4 backwards compatibility riddle solvedBy Andrew Thomas May 22, 2001 |
THERE SEEMS to be some confusion out there in hardware land
about a compatibility mode tucked away inside the Pentium 4
and an alleged performance hit should it be switched on. A few
days ago, discussion on Ace's Hardware reckoned that the FPU
OPCode compatibility function in the P4 could slow performance
by up to 17 per cent and that Intel was recommending that it
be switched on by default to provide compatibility with
ancient software. However, asking several Intel boffins on both sides of the Atlantic about the issue clarified the situation - FPU OPCode defaults to 'off' and the Intel recommendation is that it should stay off, so if any OEMs are switching it on, they should jolly well stop it immediately. |
Corporations scared of Itanic boostBy Mike Magee May 22, 2001 |
YESTERDAY WE WROTE a story about HP's Aries technology which
it hopes will transform the Itanic family of Intel chips into
a fleet of beautiful swans rather than a set of ugly
ducklings. The following letter, from a corporate user of kit,
gives a different point of view to the Powerpointillism. "HP says its Aries tool is best suited for IP bound apps, middleware and GUI apps. In these, there will be little or no noticeable performance change. With compute bound applications, it operates at 40-70 per cent native performance. |
AMD-Nvidia SNAP
deal still on
|
REPORTS THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a Strategic Nvidia AMD
Partnership (SNAP) are wildly off the mark, we can confirm. In fact the truth is at the same time more banal and also more exciting than anyone could hope for. [Are you sure about this Adamson? It's only three or four stinking chipsets. Ed.] Sources confirmed that the two firms are in active collaboration over future chipsets and have been so for at least a year, at the time when the Wintel X Box was almost a WinAMD X Box. That follows a comment from an obviously Nvidia employee (Nvidiot?) to AMD Zone that neither Crush nor SNAP existed. |
AMD's Hammer a little squareBy Mike Magee May 22, 2001 |
CLUES AS TO THE SIZE of the AMD Clawhammer die have emerged on
Ace's Hardware. According to the piece, which draws information from our old friends at PC Watch in Akihabara, the die size for Clawhammer will be 105 square millimetres on a .13 micron process. Palomino's die size is 80 square millimetres on a .13 micron process. |
| May 22, 2001 | |
Merrill cuts Intel, AMD estimatesBy Margaret Kane May 21, 2001 |
Merrill Lynch analyst Joe Osha cut ratings on both Intel and
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday, saying that the continuing
depression in the PC market could hurt both companies. Intel's stock was off 6 cents to $28.70 in early trading. AMD's was down 46 cents to $32.03. The health of the PC market has been a source of much concern among analysts. Osha's colleague at Merrill Lynch, Steve Fortuna, recently lowered his forecasts for the market, saying it would likely grow only 3 percent in the United States this year. |
Intel powers down with new chipsBy John G. Spooner May 21, 2001 |
Intel wants to be the king of energy-saving processors. The chipmaker on Monday launched five new mobile Pentium III and Celeron processors, ranging from 600MHz to 800MHz. Four of the five new chips operate at lower voltage than the company's standard mobile processors. By cutting back on the processors' power consumption and heat production, the new chips will allow PC makers to build thinner, lighter notebooks. |
Intel Debuts Mobile MPUsMay 21, 2001 |
Intel Corp. has announced a line of power-efficient processors
for lightweight mobile personal computers, an area where
companies like Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Transmeta
Corp. have scored some success recently. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel (nasdaq: INTC) said the new line of processors, based on the Pentium 3 core, are positioned for the PC market where low power consumption is key in earning design wins. The processors are being introduced in 600MHz and 750MHz versions and will carry the company’s Speed Step power and voltage scaling capability. That feature is designed to scale back the power consumption of the P3 chip when it is not running intensive applications. Intel said the Speed Step feature extends the battery life of systems compared to those that don’t have it. |
Intel hypes new server-computer chipsBy Bloomberg News May 21, 2001 |
Intel, the biggest computer chipmaker, begins advertising
Monday to promote its processors for server computers, which
will compete with those of Sun Microsystems. The "macro-processing" campaign will play on the difference between big and small computing, using analogies such as a speedboat and an ocean liner. Intel is known for making chips that run servers managing traffic and content on Web sites at data-processing centers. The company wants to make executives and information technology managers aware of its server chips for computers that manage large databases--a market segment in which Sun leads. |
Intel unveils workstation Pentium 4 chipBy Jack Robertson May 21, 2001 |
Intel Corp. on Monday unveiled its Pentium 4 dual processor
workstation processor, simply called the Xeon family, and said
it will bring out a server version of the processor in the
third quarter. Originally code-named Foster, the Xeon chip uses the Intel IA-32 quad-pumped 400-MHz processor bus and MicroBurst architecture, also used in the current Pentium 4 desktop MPUs. The biggest change is the ability to use a dual processor configuration, which also demands a new Intel 860 chipset. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Intel Foster finally a go-goBy Mike Magee May 21, 2001 |
INTEL'S FOSTER platform, which was postponed two weeks ago
because of "electrical difficulties" is now available. So says Dell, which has now released its Precision 530 for "power hungry" professionals and CAD engineers. The 530 is a dual Xeon (Foster) machine which includes two 1.7GHz 603 pin Intel chips, and which will support up to 4Gb of Rambus memory, as well as providing 292Gb of internal SCSI storage. |
Intel launches MacroprocessorBy Andrew Thomas May 21, 2001 |
LA INTELLA is preparing to spend tens of millions of dollars
putting its Foster and Merced, aka Xeon and Itanium, server
message on billboards, magazine pages and Web sites. The ad campaign will "stress how the benefits of the microprocessor, such as volume economics, performance leadership and industry innovation, are being extended to meet the demands and opportunities of servers in the Internet-enabled enterprise". This translates as 'Buy more chips'. |
1.33GHz Athlon position improvesBy the Newsdesk May 21, 2001 |
THE FLOODGATES have appeared to open on 1.333GHz Athlons in
the spot market, says Marco Fumagalli. Several brokers started offering the part towards the end of last week, indicating that the drought, which has lasted for several weeks, now appears to be over. A 200MHz Athlon 1.3GHz costs $160 in the spot market while the 266MHz front side bus version costs between $15 and $20 more. |
| May 21, 2001 | |
Micron vs. Rambus trial postponed until OctoberBy Jack Robertson May 18, 2001 |
Micron Technology Inc. attorneys Friday confirmed that the
chip maker's initial patent trial against Rambus Inc. in the
Wilmington, Del., federal court has been postponed five months
until Oct. 29. A nonjury trial had been scheduled to begin May 31 concerning fraud allegations against Rambus for failing to disclose its synchronous patent applications while participating in the industry JEDEC committee drafting an open SDRAM standard. |
Ruling on Rambus patents may happen next monthBy Jack Robertson May 18, 2001 |
Federal Judge Robert Payne isn't expected to decide until next
month whether Rambus Inc.'s synchronous DRAM patents are
unenforceable. After the jury in the patent infringement case against Infineon Technologies AG found Rambus had committed fraud, the German chip maker filed a motion to nullify the Rambus patents. The two sides are setting up a schedule for filing briefs and a possible court hearing on the patent unenforceability motion. |
The War
Escalates
|
Building on the considerable success of its Thunderbird Athlon
core, AMD has managed to surprise everyone with the potency of
its Palomino CPU design. The new 1GHz power managed Mobile
Athlon4 (the mobile iteration of the Palomino core) should
compete admirably with Intel’s Mobile P3. The Athlon4
incorporates a hardware data prefetch feature plus 3DNow
Professional, which offers backward compatibility to Intel’s
SSE instruction set. Soon, these performance enhancing
features will also show up in AMD’s new desktop CPU, fueling
its already strong position against Intel’s P4. On the other side of the fence, Intel is struggling in its transition to 0.13 micron, further delaying its transition to the Northwood processor. The good news for P4 is its upcoming break with Rambus as its only memory option. This comes on the heels of the sensational Rambus courtroom backfire, rendering Rambus’ SDRAM and DDR patent claims unenforceable and resulting in a jury judgment of Fraud against Rambus with damages levied of 3.5 million dollars. |
AMD turns up heat on Intel by sampling 1.4- and 1.5-GHz processorsMay 18, 2001 |
Turning up the heat in the microprocessor wars, Advanced Micro
Devices Inc. is sampling its fastest x86-based chips to date
to key system manufacturers, according to sources. AMD is shipping its 1.4- and 1.5-GHz family of Athlon processors, which will be officially introduced in June and July, respectively, sources said. The products represent the company's fastest processors to data (sic). At present, AMD's fastest Athlon MPUs run at speeds up to 1.3-GHz. |
Is AMD Shrinking Intel’s Margins?By Tom Murphy May 18, 2001 |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has given
Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., something to gnash its teeth
about. Over the last year competition looks like it will
broaden across more market segments and result in a more
favorable environment for consumers. "This competition is creating more value and secular changes in the X86 microprocessor market than ever before," said Nathan Brookwood, analyst for Insight 64, Saratoga, Calif. |
Intel
takes aim at the supply chain
|
Intel Corp. is trying to intercept the trend toward outsourced
system design by positioning itself squarely between its OEM
customers and their EMS providers. Sensing a vast market shift and a potential wealth of business opportunity, Intel last week disclosed formal ties with four leading contract manufacturers aimed at allowing it to keep an active hand in its customers' design work. Though less than 10% of all design services are currently outsourced, the concept is among the most hotly debated topics in the market, triggering interest from every quarter. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Intel alleged to throttle P4 speedBy Eva Glass May 20, 2001 |
A MASSIVE CONTRETEMPS has broken out all over the Web after a
chip analyst published further information which seems to
suggest that the Pentium 4 does use so called "clock
throttling" after all. InQuest's Bert McComas first sparked off the ruckus just before Easter when he published information which seemed to suggest Pentium 4s ran at half speed under certain conditions. For a piece written on the site, McComas received a thorough spanking from a number of folk who claimed his findings had no technical validity. |
Dog eats dog in RambusvilleBy Mike "Gonzo Dog Doodah Banned" Magee May 20, 2001 |
ALL THE STAFF HERE IN HARROW are great fans of local Los Altos
newspaper the Town Crier. The local newspaper has so far reported twice on Rambus' activities in Los Altos - once favourably and once unfavourably. And last week it reported perfectly fairly on the Infineon-Rambus case, as well as providing a local police report that makes Harrow look like it's the sink of inquity, in parts. [It is, in parts, Ed.] |
Intel's Merced
will live forever
|
THE FIRST EUROPEAN Intel Developer Forum was an interesting
gig, partly because the feel of the occasion, held at the
execrable Rai centre in Amsterdam, was just so very different
from the events held in Palm Springs and more recently in the
San Jose convention centre. How different? Well, Intel had obviously tailored this event for the European market and while under the bonnet (hood) the noble aim of the affair was obviously still to sell processors and silicon of one type or another, you could be forgiven for thinking that you'd stumbled into a telecomms or a datacomms seminar. |
More Tualatin mobos arriveBy Mike Magee May 20, 2001 |
LIKE WE'VE BEEN SAYING FOR A WHILE, Intel is ready to go chip
crazy with its .13 micron Tualatin families. Over at Akiba Price Watch in Japan, there are pictures of mobos supporting the Tualatin Pentium III desktop chip, and in particular the B Step of the 815, which we've talked about at some length. If you refer to this page, you will find more details of the desktops, including pricing and the 815-b step chipset needed for the platform. |
Via P4 Chipset ComputexBy Fuad Abazovic May 20, 2001 |
PLUCKY LITTLE CHIPSET COMPANY via - which is always spelled in
lower case rather than upper case -- is to kick its Pentium 4
P4X266 into action at this year's Computex in Taiwan. As we revealed here earlier, this chipset will have Super Savage integrated into its core which should give it some extra performance gain. Via will soon launch 2 more chipsets: |
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