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| Top Stories for January 4, 2002 (details below) | |
| EBN | Intel finally takes wraps off DDR chipset |
| EBN | DDR memory prices soar pending Intel introduction |
| Semiconductor Business News | Via's sales drops 7% in December, but jumps 10% for 2001 |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
| The Inquirer | Intel, Microsoft headed for hyperthreading bust up |
| The Register | Flaws in Via chipsets hit ATA/133, SCSI performance |
| The Inquirer | AMD's Clawhammer "to beat" McKinley |
| The Inquirer | ALi late with Pentium 4 chipset |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of December 30, 2001 |
Older News |
| January 4, 2002 | |
Intel finally takes wraps off DDR chipsetBy Jack Robertson January 3, 2002 |
Next Monday is D-Day for Intel, or more specifically DDR-Day,
as the firm introduces its long-awaited 845D double-data-rate
chipset and the 0.13-micron design rule Northwood Pentium 4
processor. Trying to steal some of Intel's thunder, Advanced Micro Devices on the same day will unveil its highest performance Athlon XP2000 processor, claimed to equal Intel's 2GHz Pentium 4 MPUs. At $380-to-$390 each, the new AMD chip continues to undercut equivalent P4 processor prices. |
DDR memory prices soar pending Intel introductionBy Jack Robertson December 27, 2001 |
The price of double-data-rate SDRAMs is almost double that of
comparable density single data rate chips, as OEMs and
suppliers gear up for Intel Corp.'s touted January launch of
its 845D DDR chipset. Memory vendors and analysts don't expect the premium to remain at such high levels in the first quarter as supplies increase in the market. However, a few ponder whether DDR could remain in short supply if Intel's 845D chipset launch is even more successful than anticipated. |
Via's sales drops 7% in December, but jumps 10% for 2001January 2, 2002 |
Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. here today announced revenues
of NT$ 2.15 billion (US$ 61.6 million) for the month of
December, a 7% drop from the like period a year ago. Via also posted sales of NT$34.2 billion (US$ 976 million) for 2001, a 10.4% increase over NT$30.9 billion (US$884 million) in 2000. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Intel, Microsoft headed for hyperthreading bust upBy Mike Magee December 30, 2001 |
THE SUPPORT INTEL is building into its Pentium 4 and Pentium 4
Xeons for hyperthreading is continuing to threaten long-term
relations between it and its sometime "friend" Microsoft. Earlier this year the INQ reported that relations between the two were strained because of the support for hyperthreading Intel is building into its two premier IA-32 platforms, but with the imminent release of its .13 micron version of Prestonia, the two still do not seem to have agreed licence terms. |
Flaws in Via chipsets hit ATA/133, SCSI performanceBy John Lettice December 26, 2001 |
A serious design defect in Via chipsets results in boards
based on them substantially underforming motherboards with
chipsets from Intel, SiS and ALi, a series of tests conducted
by tecChannel.de has shown. The problem affects boards using
both Intel and AMD chips, and the hit to hard disk performance
is sufficient for tecChannel to say: "we can currently not
recommend VIA chipsets for professional users who demand high
performance from their hard drives and think about setting up
RAID configurations." The problem is that Via chipsets are currently unable to take full advantage of the performance of PCI. Controller cards with Ultra-ATA/ 133 chips have a maximum theoretical throughput of 133Mbytes/s (or 127.2 in real megs), and tests of non-Via motherboards with Promise and Highpoint controllers (using either Maxtor D540X or D740X) showed burst mode transfer speeds of 95-117Mbytes/s. The same tests performed on a variety of Via boards came up with speeds of 63-78Mbytes/s, clearly indicating that there's something unpleasant going on here. |
AMD's Clawhammer "to beat" McKinleyBy Mike Magee January 2, 2002 |
A REPORT BY PAUL DEMONE at Real World Technologies suggests
that AMD's "Clawhammer" processor, aimed at the high end
desktop/workstation market, is likely to beat Intel's 64-bit
McKinley chipset in several important benchmarks. DeMone says in his article that the two competing 64-bit parts are, however, aimed at completely different market and so will not directly compete at first. |
ALi late with Pentium 4 chipsetBy Mike Magee December 31, 2001 |
AS WE REPORTED in our chipset yearly round up yesterday, ALi -
which like ATi and SiS have licences for the Pentium 4
processor - hasn't managed to ship its Aladdin Pentium 4
chipset to the schedule it suggested earlier in the year. While Digitimes reports today that it has started shipping limited volumes of the chipset, the delay in shipping the P4 chipset has caused something of a revenue drop in the fourth quarter of this year, aggravated because its DVD servo player chips have also suffered a decline in sales. |
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