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| Top Stories for August 27, 2001 (details below) | |
| Semiconductor Business News | Via accuses Intel of 'scare tactics' to block DDR chip set for Pentium 4 |
| EBN |
ATI to unveil integrated chipset for P4 Sets stage for embedded graphics IC battle with Intel, Nvidia |
| Semiconductor Business News | Acer Labs plans HyperTransport I/O in Southbridge chips |
| EE Times | Intel prepares for server chip set revival |
| EBN | Intel putting last pieces of P4 strategy in place |
| C/Net | Intel connects with developers at forum |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
| The Inquirer | Celerons die, P4s live, Garibaldi revolts |
| The Inquirer | Intel Via war hots up |
| The Inquirer | SiS 740 attacks Nforce, Via markets |
| The Register | Intel will ship DDR i845 chipset early |
| The Register | Intel details 16-way DDR-based i870 chipset |
| The Register | Intel Banias chipsets named |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of August 26, 2001 |
Older News |
| August 27, 2001 | |
Via accuses Intel of 'scare tactics' to block DDR chip set for Pentium 4August 23, 2001 |
Via Technologies Inc. here today accused Intel Corp. of trying
to stop it from selling chip sets for Pentium 4
processor-based PCs by using "scare tactics" and warning
customers that the Taiwan company is infringing upon protected
technologies in a recently introduced product. "Intel has made repeated claims both in the media and in discussions with customers that we are not licensed to sell products that are compatible with the Intel Pentium 4," said Richard Brown, director of marketing at Via Technologies. "We disagree with these and other scare tactics that Intel is employing in the PC industry for marketing purposes. |
ATI to unveil integrated chipset for P4
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ATI Technologies Inc. will introduce an integrated core-logic
graphics processor for Intel Corp.'s Pentium 4 by the end of
the year, industry sources said, setting the stage for a new
dynamic in the embedded graphics sector. The launch will turn up the heat on Intel, which controls more than half of the market for integrated graphics ICs, and also on ATI archrival Nvidia Corp., whose nForce integrated north bridge/graphics processor supports Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Athlon 4 microprocessor. |
Acer Labs plans HyperTransport I/O in Southbridge chipsAugust 22, 2001 |
Taiwan's Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALi) today announced plans to
integrate HyperTransport data bus technology in future
Southbridge chips to support the interconnect format launched
by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earlier this year. ALi said it believes the HyperTransport I/O technology will enable next-generation Southbridge circuits to handle faster central processor units while breaking system bottlenecks. |
Intel prepares for server chip set revivalBy Anthony Cataldo August 23, 2001 |
Intel Corp. this week made its most comprehensive public
disclosure to date of a chip set designed to propel its CPUs
into highly scalable, multiprocessing systems. The
microprocessor giant said at the Hot Chips conference that its
forthcoming 870 chip set will allow OEMs to build 16
processors into a single system. While Intel has been making headway in high-end computing with its Xeon and Itanium processor lines, it has lacked a platform to turn such CPUs into multiprocessing systems. Intel's answer is the 870, which is expected to roll out early next year for a new version of the Xeon 32-bit processor and for the next-generation IA-64 processor, or McKinley. |
Intel putting last pieces of P4 strategy in placeBy Jack Robertson August 20, 2001 |
The mainstream PC market is about to give Intel Corp.'s
Pentium 4 a boost, with expectations that unit shipments of
the microprocessor will increase by five times in the next
four months. Come September, Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., will have finally assembled the pieces of its Pentium 4 strategy, allowing the company to begin phasing out the venerable Pentium III microprocessor in all PC segments. |
Intel connects with developers at forumBy Michael Kanellos August 27, 2001 |
Downtown San Jose, Calif., will be awash in blue golf shirts
this week, as engineers and executives arrive for the Intel
Developer Forum. The four-day conference, which runs through Aug. 30, will serve as a showcase for Intel and its allies to demonstrate upcoming products and discuss future standards and technological directions. On Monday, a number of PC manufacturers will unveil new computers in conjunction with the release of the 1.9GHz and 2GHz Pentium 4 chips. Many of these new machines will sell for less than $2,000. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Celerons die, P4s live, Garibaldi revoltsBy Mike Magee August 24, 2001 |
WE DON'T KNOW how many more times we're gonna have to write
this story between now and Monday but here's some more info
about La Intella's cunning plans to make you buy new lamps for
old. The Pentium 4 1.5GHz really costs $129 because despite what anyone else has written elsewhere, this boxed processor is still bundled with Rambus RIMMs. Here are the prices of Intel's boxed motherboards. The Garibaldi with no audio costs $162, the same board with audio and LAN capabilities costs $185. |
Intel Via war hots upBy Andrew Thomas August 24, 2001 |
IN A BLOOD-curdling statement, chip behemoth Intel has slammed
chipset behemoth Via (all caps) in no uncertain terms. An Intel Europe spokesman removed his jacket, rolled up his sleeves, spat on his hands and shouted: "Via does not have a license to produce chipsets compatible with Intel's Pentium 4 microprocessors. To date we have licensed ATI, SiS and ALI to build chipsets for the Pentium 4 microprocessor." |
SiS 740 attacks Nforce, Via marketsBy Fudo Abazovic August 24, 2001 |
SiS REPRESENTATIVES have told the INQUIRER about some
integrated graphics it has up its sleeve. In the last few days we've heard a number of things about Nforce and Via's plans. Nforce will offer second generation T&L graphic inside, while Via is ready to move from good old Savage 4 to an improved SuperSavage core with integrated graphics. |
Intel will ship DDR i845 chipset earlyBy Tony Smith August 23, 2001 |
Intel has officially denied that it plans to bring forward the
release of the DDR version of its i845 chipset, but Taiwanese
memory and mobo companies insist that that is exactly what the
chip giant will do. We noted a week or so back that comments from Hynix suggested that Intel may well have brought the release of the DDR i845 forward from its scheduled Q1 2002 launch timeframe, with a new launch coming perhaps as soon as the formal launch of the PC133 i845. |
Intel details 16-way DDR-based i870 chipsetBy Tony Smith August 24, 2001 |
Intel took the wraps off its i870 chipset this week, the part
that will allow server makers to build 16-way systems based on
its Xeon and Itanium processors. It will also be the first chipset to support Intel's Infiniband architecture. And if it ships in Q4, as suggested by the company's server roadmap, it will be the first Intel chipset to support DDR SDRAM. The chipset has been on Intel's server roadmap for some time now, but has always been discussed in terms of four- and eight-way systems. Ultimately, the company told attendees at this week's Hot Chips conference, it will develop new interfaces that will scale up to 256-CPU systems. |
Intel Banias chipsets namedBy Tony Smith August 15, 2001 |
Intel's mysterious mobile processor, Banias, continues to
generate scraps of information but little in the way of a full
meal or even a light snack. The latest addition to the pot comes from Japanese Web site PC Watch, which notes an industry source's claim that the part will ship Q2 2003 after sampling in Q3 2002. It also says it has heard that Intel is preparing two chipsets for the part, codenamed Odum and Monterra, the former a mainstream product, the other a budget-oriented version with integrated graphics. |
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