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Earlier news here ====================================== 09/09/02 - Soyo KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum The 34th Soyo KT333 Dragon review has just arrived from Germany and it's 14 Pages of really good information about all aspect of the motherboard including BIOS settings and overclocking. Read the review here and see more Soyo KT333 reviews here ====================================== 09/09/02 - Athlon XP 2400+ & 2600+ for sale! According to Russian site Xbitlabs, an Estonian price finder site is mentioning a local retailer already selling XP 2400+ and 2600+ at respectively 305 and 470$. Read the story here ====================================== 09/09/02 - IDC lowers 2002 PC shipment forecast IDC is lowering PC shipment for 2002 and 2003 due to weak demand for computers from both consumer and business users. Read the report at Silicon Strategies - IDG The Register ====================================== 09/09/02 - Flash mem poised for big sales bounce James Detar of Investors.com has rather positive news about flash market and AMD: "Volkswagen, the biggest carmaker in Europe, uses AMD flash chips in transmissions and other parts. In addition to Volkswagen, it makes Audi, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini and other cars". The good news are here ====================================== 09/09/02 - Cisco deauthorize Dell as a reseller Starting October, Dell won't be allowed to sell Cisco Products anymore due to Dell's increasing interest in the networking market. CRN - Register - ZDNet - CNET Reuters - InfoWorld ====================================== 09/09/02 - IBM quietly decks four Xeon machines Thanks to Phil for telling us about that inquirer story on IBM ditching 4 Xeon machines from its catalog. Guess the reason after reading that short story here ====================================== 09/09/02 - Speed limits on P4 a chance for AMD? According the Mike Magee of the inquirer, the Pentium's internal limit will open a wide window of opportunity to AMD: "But with the introduction of 512K cache "Barton" AMD XP chips, we think that Intel may well be giving the smaller chip company a real chance to catch up again on the clock speed front, irrespective of any Clawhammer introductions in Q4 this year or Q1 the next." Read the whole story here ====================================== 09/09/02 - Processor Speed Is Almost Passé When Washington Post is teaching the mass about megahertz myth it's more than enlightening: "Before you splurge on a faster processor, upgrade the memory, the video card, the hard drive, the monitor or even the mouse. You'll get an improvement you can actually see afterward". Read here ====================================== 09/09/02 - Competition For Hammer: P4 at 3.6 & 3.33GHz Intel is preparing to welcome Hammer with some new toys running at higher speed : "THG's view is that the introduction of a potent, if not overpowering, "hammer" is more than desirable. It will bring a breath of fresh air into the market, and the ambitious user will profit from the 64-bit option in the bargain. Intel needs more pressure once again!"... Will it be enough? That's the question THG tries to answer here ====================================== 09/09/02 - MSI KT4 Ultra KT400 mainboard review French Site X86-Secret has a very long and interesting review of the KT4 Ultra with some details about the KT400 chipset that deserve a good read... Here for that review and here for our KT4 special page ====================================== 09/09/02 - Abit KX7-333R with KT333 review Another short review of a KT333 mainboard with some disillusioned conclusion: "ABIT had done great things with this motherboard, unfortunately this review comes a little too late. The reason I say "too late" is because the VIA KT400 chipset is out and ABIT is all over it with their new AT7-MAX2 and KD7-RAID" Read the review here and look for more reviews here ====================================== 09/09/02 - Epox 8K5A2+ KT333 mainboard review AMD World has reviewed and the conclusion is laying the emphasis on its OC capabilities: "The 8K5A2+ offers some impressive overclocking options that should not be overlooked and the fact it shows to be strangely better than the new released KT400 mainboards" Look for more reviews here ====================================== 09/09/02 - Epox 8K5A2+ KT333 mainboard review Mikhailtech writer's Alexandru Spataru is testing this new Epox board which seems to be an overclockers' dream: "from what I have seen it is maybe the best board for overlocking. As a comparison, the 8K5A2+ did 215MHz FSB w/o any problems or glitches, while the 8K3A+ only did 207MHz FSB". Read the review here and look for more reviews here ======================================= 09/09/02 - Intel's Madison first dance Intel kicks off its annual Developer Forum where 4000 engineers are supposed to attend. Chipzilla is expected to show, Banias, laptop processor designed from scratch and Madison, kind of Itanium 3 with low perf, high price and max hype. Read the rest in Silicon - Reuters ZDNet UK - Hindustan Times - CNET - Silicon Valley - ZDNet ITWeb - CIOL - NewsFactor - SFGate - Geek - eWeek ======================================= 09/09/02 - AMD & UMC get even closer... AMD and UMC getting much closer with the sharing of technologies that will increase their respective strength against competitors like Intel or TSMC. The main deal concerns the development of advanced process control technology for their 300-mm fab venture in Singapore. ElectronicNews - SS - the inquirer - InfoWorld - ebnews - Geek Tech Report - Anandtech - DesignTechnica - Business Wire ======================================= 09/09/02 - XtremeDDR PC2700 review Here is the latest DDR 333MHz review which looks rather tempting: "stick of RAM uses Samsung B3 6-ns chips that are really good; Samsung chips have proven to be very good at obtaining high FSB". The full review is here and our PC2700 special page here ======================================= Older news here |
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