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Earlier news here ____________________________________________ 05/21/03 - AthlonXP: reviews of the day 1 - Athlon XP 3000+ at Dukgamers 2 - Athlon XP 3200+ at Ace's Hardware 3 - Athlon XP 3200+ at AMD Zone 4 - Athlon XP 3200+ at A1 Electronics ____________________________________________ 05/21/03 - AMD dominate PC WORLD's Top 15 desktops "All of the top 5 positions in the "Power listing" are Athlon "Barton" PCs, and 5 of the 8 "value" PCs also go to AMD. The magazine conceded that an Athlon-powered ABS system "turned in a scorching score of 133 on our PC WordBench 4 tests ... one of the highest PC WorldBench 4 scores we've recorded..." Read more at Geek here ____________________________________________ 05/21/03 - Production Technologies: Behind the Scenes In this article, Xbitlabs' Andy Yaschenko takes a close look at the contemporary manufacturing technologies used in the semiconductor industry. Andy raises the curtain of mystery over the transistors and other chips manufacturing process, and to evaluate the prospects of the current and upcoming technological processes... An absolute must read at Xbitlabs here ____________________________________________ 05/21/03 - New VIA Hyperion 4 in 1 drivers released VIA Hyperion drivers are suitable for any VIA chipset and all MS Windows Operating Systems (Win95/98/98SE users). If you are looking for VIA 4in1 drivers, these are the drivers you are looking for. The "Hyperion" name was added to the 4in1 driver set name in December 2002. This is the third release with the Hyperion name. Download them here ____________________________________________ 05/20/03 - Motherboard & Barebones: reviews of the day 1 - Gigabyte GA-7NNXP nForce2 Ultra 400 at OC.TW 2 - EPoX EP-8RDA3+ nForce2 Ultra 400 at Hexus ____________________________________________ 05/20/03 - MySQL on Opteron! MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that the MySQL database has been optimized for the AMD Opteron processor, the flagship for AMD's new AMD64 technology platform. MySQL for Linux running on the AMD Opteron processor is now available at the MySQL AB Web here ____________________________________________ 05/20/03 - Microsoft + AMD: the 64-bit question "end users looking to protect their investment in 32-bit applications while investigating potential 64-bit performance improvements may consider AMD-based rather than Intel-based hardware to be the most appropriate choice"... Says The Register here ____________________________________________ 05/20/03 - Chip market to grow 8 percent in '03 "The worldwide semiconductor market is due to grow 8.3 percent to $168 billion in 2003, according to analyst firm Gartner, driven by high demand for cell phone handset applications. "... Read InfoWorld here ____________________________________________ 05/20/03 - Guide to electronics for modding The perfect guide for using electronics to make the most of the hardware has just arrived. Straight from Italy, this masterpiece tells everything, from tools to components (capacitors, transistors,...), and how to use them for OCing, modding, tweaking the computer parts... A genuine bible, quite well translated from pure italian, at DinoXPC here ____________________________________________ 05/19/03 - New nForce & nForce2 unified drivers Planet 3DNow! announces the arrival of nForce & nForce2 unified driver package (UDP) version 2.41 that solves IDE and sound issues described in the site's Config Guide. The report also mention the drive 2.78 circulating over the net, known to be a fake. Download and more here ____________________________________________ 05/19/03 - nForce2 MCP-S with SATA and 1GB LAN "NVIDIA will introduce a new south bridge called MCP–S where S stands for Serial ATA. Apart from Serial ATA this chipset will have the Nvidia Gigabit network adaptor which will be the last innovation for this new south bridge. " Read at the inquirer here and enjoy more nForce2 here ____________________________________________ 05/19/03 - Athlon 64 2800+ tested in China! Yesky is a lovely Chinese site full of rare stuff like some exclusive information on AMD China and how the founder is doing in Mainland. Today, this great site has a full 2800+ rated Athlon 64 review tested on a VIA K8T400M board and it answers questions you were too shy to ask... It's here! ____________________________________________ 05/19/03 - Sun, Oracle embrace cheaper blades "Sun Microsystems is expected to unveil Monday a partnership with software maker Oracle to promote the use of stripped-down blade servers as a way to lower computing costs. The announcement will describe an effort code-named Project Grizzly, part of Sun's plan to develop servers that use Intel and Advanced Micro Devices processors and that run Sun's Solaris operating system, according to sources familiar with the plans". Read ZDNet ____________________________________________ 05/19/03 - KT600 will be the next big Athlon chipset "...the first benchmarks of a reference board based on the KT600 chipset. In most tests, apart from purely graphics, the KT600 outscored the new nForce 2 400 Ultra a sea-change from the performance of the KT400A, we must say. Boards based on this chipset should arrive in retail as soon as June, so in the next 10 days or so and are much cheaper than nForce 2 Ultra.". Read the inquirer here ____________________________________________ 05/19/03 - The inner secrets of the AMD Opteron "There are more secrets hiding in the current Opterons. One of the most deeply hidden is power management. Unlike the early, highly combustible Athlons, the Opterons do not burn up without a heatsink. The power management is leaps and bounds above the older chips. While the "official" power management is good, full Pentium 4 style thermal throttling is on the chip, but not activated yet."... Red the rest at inquirer here ____________________________________________ 05/19/03 - New nForce2 chipsets: New or retouched? Adrian, master of Rojak Pot, will take you on an in-depth tour of the "new" nForce2 400 and nForce2 Ultra 400 chipsets and will show you what's really new and what's not. You will also discover which of those chipsets is NVIDIA's real jewel and why!... Read that here ____________________________________________ 05/19/03 - nForce2: single-channel mode vs. dual Some time ago Digit-Life published the review on the nForce2 where they touched upon some prejudices, but when the nForce2 hit the stores the number of rumors rose sharply. That is why Digit-Life decided to carry out a certain investigation to clear the things up, but attentive readers will find nothing new here. Moreover, the article is written in a very simple language, ignoring such terms as memory banks. Read here ____________________________________________ 05/18/03 - Motherboard & Barebones: reviews of the day 1 - Asus A7N8X vs. A7N8X (FSB400MHz) at Computerbase 2 - EPoX 8RDA+ nForce2 at Hardcoreware 3 - Soltek SL-75FRN2-L nForce2 Ultra 400 HardwareZone 4 - EPoX 8RDA+ nForce2 at OCIA ____________________________________________ 05/18/03 - AMD XP1800+ JIUHB Core overclocking "Almost every enthusiast has come across across the JIUHB stepping, but does everybody know what it means and what it's capable off? Originally this stepping was first seen with the XP1700+ (1466Mhz). But for some time now there is an XP1800+ (1533Mhz) available with the same stepping". Read the rest at DataFuse here ____________________________________________ 05/18/03 - Microsoft and Nvidia kiss and make up "Five AMD executives quietly sat at the back of the auditorium as Taylor delivered his presentation. They are probably hoping that rumours of an Intel Nforce 5 are just random speculation and gossip". More at the inquirer here ____________________________________________ 05/18/03 - Chipset wars claims another victim "The Taiwanese press reports today that ALi will spin off its chipset business on the first of July at which time the firm will be called ULi, which actually means that 60 per cent of it will be held by UMC". Read the inquirer here ____________________________________________ Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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