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Earlier news here ____________________________________________ 07/14/03 - Motherboard & Barebone: reviews of the day 1 - AOpen AK77-400 KT400A at AMD zone 2 - Albatron KM18G Pro nForce2 at OC.TW 3 - Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro II nForce2 Ultra 400 at Hexus ____________________________________________ 07/14/03 - AMD edges past Itanium "IT Week Labs tests show that AMD's 64bit Opteron processor runs encryption software 10 percent faster than Intel's 64bit Itanium 2 with 3MB cache, codenamed Madison... Our benchmarks show the Opteron 244 processor provides superior performance on compute-intensive tasks, such as the GPG encryption used in our tests. The news means even future versions of Itanium 2 may not be significantly faster than future Opterons". Here ____________________________________________ 07/14/03 - AMD, Fujitsu form 'Spansion' flash venture AMD and Fujitsu today announced the formation of a new Flash memory semiconductor joint venture that will market its solutions under the new Spansion™ global product brand name. The new company, FASL LLC, was formed by the integration of AMD's and Fujitsu’s Flash memory businesses. The new joint venture is the largest Flash memory company in the world based on dedicated resources that include gross assets having a net book value of approximately US$3 billion and approximately 7,000 employees. Spansion Flash memory solutions are available worldwide from AMD and Fujitsu. ____________________________________________ 07/14/03 - Nvidia readies Crush for 940, 939 Athlon 64s "The nForce 3 Pro 250 chip is the one which gives support for four Serial ATA and two ATA-133 channels, USB 2.0, PCI and AC97. Like its friends VIA and SIS, nVidia is likely to sample PCI-Express chipsets in the fourth quarter of this year, while it will, next year, sample a spanking new DX9 graphics core for its AMD Crush K8 family". at the inquirer ____________________________________________ 07/12/03 - Motherboard & Barebone: reviews of the day 1 - Asus SK8N Opteron motherboard preview at T-break 2 - Chaintech Zenith 7JNS Ultra nForce2 at Clan Beowulf 3 - MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR nForce2 Ultra 400 at Viper Lair 4 - ABIT NF7-S v2.0 nForce2 Ultra 400 at Ninja Lane 5 - FIC KT400A Pro VIA KT400A at AMD Zone 6 - KT400A motherboards roundup at Amdmb 7 - ECS L7VTA Revision 1.1 KT400A at AMD Zone 8 - DFI LANParty KT400A VIA KT400A at 3DXtreme 9 - More coming soon... ____________________________________________ 07/12/03 - 750.000 Athlon 64 expected at launch "Athlon 64 will launch with a socket compatible to Opteron, in order to take immediate advantage of mainboards already in the marketplace, such as the Asus SK8N, and a few others. HOWEVER, further iterations of the chip will have pin(s) added so you will not be able to use them in Opteron boards". Read more rumors at HardOCP ____________________________________________ 07/12/03 - First board working with Opteron & Athlon 64! We are stunned to learn that MSI has produced the first motherboard socket 940 dual Opteron that works with Athlon 64 (socket 754) too! The board is named K8D Master2 FAR and, at time of writing, we're not fully certain if the board will request any kind of adaptor to fit the Athlon 64 into the Opteron socket or if AMD is going to produce a socket 940 version of the Athlon 64! Whatever solution will be implemented, we are already 100% sure that MSI is using the K8T800 (formerly K8T400M) chipset and southbridge VT8237 recently announced. This mainboard is a new step toward corporate acceptance for AMD64 technology even though we find all this a bit confusing... ____________________________________________ 07/12/03 - High End Workstation Chipsets "Opteron or Athlon64 and nForce3 Pro should make for an exciting AMD comeback. This article's focus is to bring high end hardware to the usual reader and to give a little taste into what goes on in the space above the consumer arena." Read the whole article at Hexus here ____________________________________________ 07/10/03 - Motherboard & Barebone: reviews of the day 1 - Leadtek K7NCR18D ProII nForce2 Ultra 400 at TecCentral 2 - Opteron 1XX and nForce3 preview at HardTecs4U 3 - MSI KT4A Ultra VIA KT400A at AMD Zone ____________________________________________ 07/10/03 - Athlon 64 3400+ first benchmarks spotted Taiwanese PCDVD site's forum has some Athlon 64+ 3400+ 2GHz benchmarks that are worth a good look. Running on reference motherboards from AMD and VIA, the processor some very good performances in memory access test while looking less brilliant in floating point calculation and especially with Superpi where 1million decimals were calculated in 43 second (31" for Athlon at 3.4GHz). Check PCDVD forum special page here ____________________________________________ 07/10/03 - OCZ PC4000 Gold EL DDR memory at CL 2.5 OCZ Technology announces the availability of PC4000 DDR500 EL DDR Gold Edition memory modules, featuring HyperSpeed and Extended Voltage Protection technology. OCZ PC4000 EL DDR Gold Edition will be shipping in 256MB and 512MB modules, as well as hand matched and tested 512MB (2x256MB) and 1GB (2x512MB) Dual Channel kits with rated timings of CL 2.5-4-4-7 at 2.8 volts. ____________________________________________ 07/10/03 - ALi ready for Athlon 64 & Opteron Even though it has given up the Athlon chipset market, ALi, and its subsidiary ULi, are still in the race for Athlon 64, and Opteron, with the M1687 chipset, official said to us today. The chipset maker is mainly waiting for sales to really take off before joining the chase with a chipset that fits both Athlon 64 and Opteron, on desktop and notebook platform! ____________________________________________ 07/10/03 - IBM: friend or foe? Ed Stroligo at Overclockers.com here wonders about IBM's secret intentions toward AMD... Charming prince or cannibal Lecter? Ed is asking with some good insights about what could be the next big merge in the chip business '"AMD has some valuable assets. It has a good deal of intellectual property, and some smart people working for it. It has a good fab at Dresden"... ____________________________________________ 07/09/03 - EUR98 Million German Aid For AMD and friends The European Union Commission approved EUR98 million in German state aid to Germany's Infineon Technologies AG , Dupont Photomasks Inc. and AMD to build a microchip plant in Dresden. The Commission said the aid to AMTC was "below the permitted aid ceiling," representing 25.2% of the total investment. The facility will research, develop and produce optical photomasks used in the manufacture of microchips. See AMTC Site ____________________________________________ 07/09/03 - Gigabyte-nVidia deal: behind the scene All the IT industry has long been excited by the intrigues of relationships between the leading hi-tech players like nVidia and Gigabyte and Digital-Daily has more insights about what's happening in the dark side of the stage... ____________________________________________ 07/08/03 - Motherboard & Barebone: reviews of the day 1 - AOpen AK79G Tube nForce2 at Sudhian Media 2 - ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 nForce2 400 at Hexus 3 - Shuttle XPC SN45G nForce2 SFF at Tech Report 4 - Gigabyte GA-7NNXP nForce2 Ultra 400 at AnandTech 5 - EPoX 8RDA3+ nForce Ultra 400 at PCHardware 6 - Biostar M7NCG Pro nForce2 at Bjorn3D ____________________________________________ 07/08/03 - Introduction to water cooling Water cooling has become a trend which rapidly spreads among experienced users, and the confusion disappears when pre-made systems start to show up on the market. This article mostly looks at the different parts of a water cooling system and how they work, but also a few things you should have in mind and on top of that a little theory. Nice reading for the interested users at NordicHardware. ____________________________________________ 07/08/03 - AMD Thorton Core To Be Called Athlon FX? Adrian's Rojak Pot, king of BIOS, is revealing that next low cost AMD Athlon version, Barton core with 256KB L2 cache, is going to be named Athlon FX! "Thorton core will be nothing more than a Barton core with half the L2 cache disabled. While the Barton is the successor of the Thoroughbred-B core, the Thorton looks set to be the new AMD Duron". Read the rest here ____________________________________________ Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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