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Earlier news here ======================================= 01/15/03 - Intel to qualify 90-nm process by mid-2003 Following Conference Call, Silicon Strategies gives more details on Intel's plan regarding 90nm process. According to the report, the company will accelerate the migration to 90nm and 300mm wafers to produce next generation chip Prescott (desktop) and Dothan (laptop) during year 2003. Read that here and get more information about 90nm process here and 300mm wafer here ======================================= 01/15/03 - Abit KD7-RAID KT400 mainboard review It's hard to guess what will be the KT400 lifespan with all the tornados coming from every side of the horizon. SiS746FX, nForce2 IGP and even Athlon 64 are threatening badly its future and Via's marketing must welcome reviews like the one VR-Zone is bringing us today: "The performance of the KD7-Raid was admirable, performing faster than the competition in most benchmarks". Read from the start here and see what other reviewers had to say at our Special here ======================================= 01/15/03 - Modding the Athlon XP for a 400 MHz FSB Sudhian published a trick that might delight the crazy overclocker that sleeps in every AMDer. Cutting L12 bridges on the CPU allows to bypass FSB limitation and stably run the chip with FSB at 200MHz. Read this here and check for more OC delights over here (thanks PSY!) ======================================= 01/15/03 - AMD's Fab 30, Simply Fabulous According to the inquirer, 60 journalists from all over the world were invited for a Fab 30 tour and that's probably why report about AMD factory are going to pop up all over the place. After AnandTech, Psy informs us of the Hardware Analysis' article situated here and soberly call "Simply Fabulous"... Visit also our Fab30 Special here ======================================= 01/15/03 - AMD inside - Touring Dresden Fab30 AnandTech's Anand Lal Shimpi went to AMD Dresden Fab30, which is known to be one of the largest U.S. projects in East Germany, for a tour with an attitude. Hammer, yield, clean room and more, are among the little secrets you'll discover when reading the full report here. To make the tour even more complete you can continue the visit with a look to Fab30 Special here ======================================= 01/14/03 - Athlon XP 1700+ B core .13µm at 2GHz! See how PioPio Hardware quietly push a 50$ chip rated XP 1700+ (AXDA1700DUT3C), 13nm and Core revision B to more than 2GHz with nothing more than air-cooling! The job was done on a modest Gigabyte 7VAXP KT400 motherboard and, according to the report, the CPU's temperature never exceeded 35°C during the whole test! read that here and stop saying Athlon runs hot! ======================================= 01/14/03 - Intel Q4 03 result tops estimates Revenue for Q4 were 7.16B$ (estimate 6.5 to 6.9B$) with a net of 1B$ or .16$ a share compared with .15$ a year earlier. This better-than-expected result could bode well for AMD which will report Q4 result on Thursday 16th of this month. Broadcast will be available here ======================================= 01/14/03 - KT400 motherboards roundup This shootout, from German HarTware, compares four KT400 motherboards among which we have Albatron KX400-8x, Club-3D CMV-KX400-8x, MSI KT4-Ultra-FISR and EPoX 8K9A3+. To add some spice to the whole, HarTware is inviting also old timer ASUS A7V266-E (KT266A) and EPoX 8K3A+ (KT333). The final verdict gives the crown to... read it here ======================================= 01/14/03 - IBM & AMD to join UnitedLinux Looking at the past few days news, we feel that AMD and IBM relationship is getting more intimate. The two patents heavy weight (IBM rank first for patents in the US for 10 consecutive years) are both joining UnitedLinux, a partnership of industry-leading Linux companies combining their intellectual property, geographic mind share, sales, support and marketing expertise to produce a uniform distribution of Linux designed for business and that will most probaly focus on porting Linux applications on Opteron quickly and coherently. Read more here ======================================= 01/14/03 - Biostar M7NCG nForce2 IGP motherboard nForceHQ just received a Biostar M7NCG nForce2 IGP motherboard and post a gallery of 6 pictures you may find here. As usual, we have set up a M7NCG Special page to store useful links and it's here (thanks Psy!) ======================================= 01/14/03 - Leadtek K7NCR18G nForce2 IGP review Psy reports that French site Clubic is celebrating the arrival of the first nForce2 IGP motherboard from Leadtek with Champaign and a full blast review you may find here. More Leadtek K7NCR18G reviews also here ======================================= 01/14/03 - KT400 vs. nForce2 motherboard Sweclocker.com, the leading overclocking site in Sweden, is comparing EPoX 8K9A2+ to EPoX 8RDA+ for a fraticide duel. The text is in plain Swedish but photos, charts and benchmarks are easily understandable (Swedish lesson: Föregående sida = previous page and Nästa sida = next page). Check for the winner here ======================================= 01/14/03 - Huge coolers roundup Chosing the right cooler for Athlon processor can be tricky. Between price, noise, cooling efficiency, size, and else, user has to decypher a high amount of datas before going for the right one. Thank to Tom's Hardware, this job is over. In a huge of 34 designs roundup, THG has benchmarked the cooling stars and created a synthetic table of datas that tells us all the requested details. Read this here and check for more coolers roundups here ======================================= 01/14/03 - Asus A7N8X nForce2 motherboard review HardwareZone is testing the Deluxe version of the A7N8X based on nForce2-ST a variant that comprises of the nForce2-SPP and nForce2 MCP-T, whilst the non-Deluxe version is built around the nForce2-S. Tests are done with an Athlon XP2000+ (unlocked) and 512MB of Kingston DDR400 and bring another award in Asus' basket: "All in all, the ASUS A7N8X is a solid motherboard that proved to be a worthy overclocker on top of being a full-featured nForce2 motherboard". Read the full version here and check for many more here ======================================= Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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