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10/30/02
- AMD powers CLIC clustering Linux
MandrakeSoft -- a leading worldwide integrator and distributor of Linux solutions ; Bull -- a specialist in IT infrastructures; and INPG/INRIA -- a Grenoble Research Group, today announced the first release of a new Linux Clustering Distribution named "CLIC", a project publicly funded by the French Agency for New Technologies. This first release has been tested on a 20-dual AMD processor cluster and has also been installed on 40-dual AMD processor cluster at the LPM2C physics research center. Read the news
here
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10/30/02
- Intel may have to redesign Itanium
The latest ruling, in the Intergraph case, is getting very tricky for Intel as reported by IDG:
"Intel has three options in order to stay the injunction: appeal the decision, pay $100 million to license the relevant patents, or redesign the Itanium processor". Read the rest here and get some more patent dispute links here
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10/30/02
- Motherboard Monitor 5.2.1.0 released
MBM's author Alex van Kaam just informed us about his latest version of this excellent monitoring programme which reports temperature, fan speed, and more. Check the detail at our Software Special page situated
here
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10/30/02
- Overclocking Athlon XP 2700+
Our Finnish friends from Muropaketti tried overclocking an Athlon XP 2700 at room temperature and reached a speed of 2316MHz which didn't seem to please them... Read
here the English summary with many good graphics with the Finnish part. More OC also here.
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10/30/02
- Hammer big bang next month
We let you meditate the last sentence from CNET on AMD's share:
"AMD CEO Hector Ruiz will deliver a keynote speech at the Comdex trade show next month, and sources close to the company say it may announce that some computer manufacturers have committed to adopting Hammer chips for servers or desktops"
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10/30/02
- AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred
German site HardTech4U has a complete review about Thoroughbred from 2200 to 2800+ which covers all aspect of the new core with the technical datas requested to answer the most inquisitive questions. From temperature dissipation to PR rating via overclocking,
it's all
here and it's really worth a visit.
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10/30/02
- AMD's market share falls to 4-year low
ExtremeTech has the market share crude numbers and reports a free fall linked to AMD inventory's policy leading to a loss of 4 points from 15.6%:
"I should point out that this share doesn't quite reflect the market reality, as far more AMD chip sets were sold in Q3 than processors -- because AMD had built inventory in the first half". Read the report here and check for more numbers at Q3 2002 Conference Call Special here
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10/30/02
- Mobo makers: 2002 3Q financial results
DigiTimes has the mainboard makers results for the last quarter. ECS remains the most profitable company, some have their gross margin flying higher, while Abit, Acorp, Chaintech are in the red... Read the report
here
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10/30/02
- nForce in Sony Vaio Desktop
NVIDIA, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that its NVIDIA nForce platform processors were chosen by Sony Electronics Inc. for inclusion in Sony's new VAIO desktop digital media PCs. Read the press release
here
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10/30/02
- Hammer motherboards in Japan
PC Expo, biggest IT fair in Japan, is taking place every  fall. The first-tier motherboard makers like Asus, MSI or Gigabyte were all there to show their upcoming products among which Hammer motherboards were in very good place. German TecChanel was in Tokyo for this event and has a long and well documented report for you
here
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10/30/02
- AMD investing boards update
AMD investors are massively joining boards where they can exchange ideas, tips and sometime poetic flames that makes the visit more attractive... We have just updated the Special page we have for all those boards and InvestorHub is now in fourth position after it added some new useful features like spell checking, ignore and many more... Discover InvestorHub and friends here
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10/30/02
- OCW Asus A7N8X review update
OCworkbench overclocked the Asus A7N8X FSB to 207MHz and updated their review accordingly. Have a second look to it here and check for more A7N8X here
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10/30/02 - OCZ Enhanced Latency PC3500
Moto at Techzone has put his hands on a PC3500 stick which is screaming beyond his wildest dream:
"Now this is really smoking! I knew I would be able to push the OCZ PC 3500 pass its 434MHz stock speed but I wasn't expecting it to be able to hit 494MHz! It's wasn't 100% stable at this speed". Read the entire story here and check for more PC3500 DDR433 reviews here
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