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Earlier news here ____________________________________________ 01/05/05 - Motherboards & barebones reviews of the day - Soltek 3901M Socket 939 SFF at 3DExtreme - Price - MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum OC at HTT400 at VR-Zone - Price - EPoX 9NDA3+ Socket 939 at VR-Zone - Price - Asus A8N SLI Extreme OC at VR-Zone - Price - EPoX 9NPA+ nForce4 Socket 939 at T-break - E-Machines M5309 Athlon XP-M Notebook at 790$ - WOW! PDA palmOne Zire 72 Color Handheld at 210$ ____________________________________________ 01/05/05 - The situation about Tampered AMD chip Big stories about some Taiwanese businesses that were caught tampering CPUs to make them look better than they really were. According to AMD in a report placed here, it should not happen with chip bought from official distributors which are listed here (US) and here (Europe). According to various sources, 60000 seized Athlon XP type CPUs were about to be tampered and sent to China and Europe through the infamous grey market (OEM buying trays and selling them to resellers). ZDNet has more here ____________________________________________ 01/04/05 - AMD planning U.S. developer conference Tired of squatting Intel Developer Forum, AMD is on the way to create its very own Forum and IT World has more about it: "AMD held a developer conference in the late 1990s to promote its 3DNow extensions for multimedia applications and the launch of its K6-2 processor, but hasn't done anything like that since, said Krewell, who used to work in marketing for AMD.". Read more here and see you there ____________________________________________ 01/03/05 - Motherboards & barebones reviews of the day - Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI nForce4 SLI at T-break - Price - Shuttle SN95G5 Athlon 64 SFF at Legion Hardware - Price - Iwill ZMAXdp dual Opteron barebone at PC Pro - Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 K8T800 Pro at Club OC - Price - Plextor PX-716A DVD±RW Dual Layer Burner at 130$ - Crucial Gizmo 128KB Flash Memory USB at 20$ ____________________________________________ 01/03/05 - Tyan design for NX Geode Thoroughbred core PC Watch has some information regarding the latest Geode chip rated NX which is based on Thoroughbred core model 8 as shown on the slide here. More precisely, the NX is based on the Athlon XP mobile core with a 266MHz bus, 128KB L1 cache and 256KB for the L2 cache as described here. PC Watch also indicates that Tyan already offers a specific NX board design called S2498AGN here for the 3 NX designs 1250@6W, 1500@6W & 1750@14W ____________________________________________ 01/03/05 - Alchemy in next GoVideo portable video lineup GoVideo announced today that it is collaborating with AMD to integrate the AMD Alchemy Au1200 processor in its next line of portable video players (PVP). By selecting the low-power, high-performance Au1200 processor, GoVideo is positioning itself to be a leader in the burgeoning personal media player market by offering a mobile device that provides living-room quality entertainment for consumers on the go. We have more here ____________________________________________ 12/31/04 - Hector Ruiz best Manager of the Year 2004 In its yearly compendium of worst and best managers for the ending year, Business Week has elected the Piedras Negras' kid, Hector Ruiz, AMD's CEO, Best Manager of the year for his talent to put back AMD on the track of success. Congratulations Dr Ruiz!! "Ruiz has become Mr. Fix-it. When he took over financially strapped AMD in April, 2002, from the flamboyant Jerry Sanders, few people knew who he was, despite his long tenure at Motorola Inc " ____________________________________________ 12/29/04 - Opteron dual-core speed revealed Inquirer has some interesting datas like speeds, powers and temps concerning Opteron dual-core: "AMD has already sampled some dual core chips to a select few of its customers. HP is a favored case in example, but some members of the X64-32 coding community are believed to have samples as well". Read the rest here ____________________________________________ 12/27/04 - Motherboards reviews of the day - Shuttle SN95G5 Athlon 64 Barebone at HWZ - Price - Abit AV8 K8T800 Pro Socket 939 at Hard Core Ware - Price - ATi Radeon Xpress 200 Chipset at Digit-Life - Price - Albatron K8Ultra U Pro Socket 939 at OC workbench - Plextor PX-716A DVD±RW Dual Layer Burner at 130$ - Crucial Gizmo 128KB Flash Memory USB at 20$ - AMD Athlon 64 2800+ unboxed processor at 119$ ____________________________________________ 12/21/04 - Motherboards reviews of the day - Asus AN8-SLI Deluxe nForce4 at Legion Hardware - Price - Asus AN8-SLI Deluxe nForce4 at Hard Tecs 4U - Price - Foxconn WinFast 755FXK8AA SiS755FX at AnandTech - VIA K8T890 reference board at Hardwareluxx - Seagate ST3200822AS 200GB hard disk at 119$ ____________________________________________ 12/15/04 - Asus claims 3Dmark05 Record The successful A8N-SLI Deluxe from Asus is, according to Tech Tree, the first board sportting SLI to surpass 10000 3Dmark05 thanks to an Athlon FX 55 and two NV45 graphic cards: "The company said over the previous versions, it usually took as long as over a year to break the 10,000 points barrier. However, on the latest installment of 3DMark, the A8N-SLI Deluxe was able to break the 10,000 mark within 10 days". Read that here ____________________________________________ 12/15/04 - ATI Radeon Catalyst 4.12 drivers out! The latest version of the unified Radeon drivers named Catalyst is now ready to load at the ATI download center. With version 4.12, Catalyst intends to improve some games performance up to 20%. You can find the games fix list here the release note here and the download center here ____________________________________________ 12/14/04 - Motherboards reviews of the day - Soltek 8KAN2E-GR nForce3 250Gb at Hexus - Price - Socket 754 motherboards roundup at Madshrimps - MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum at HardOCP - Price - EPoX 8KDA3+ nForce3 250Gb at OC Zone - Price - Asus AN8-SLI nForce4 SLI at Hot Hardware - Price - EPoX 9NDA3+ nForce 3 Socket 939 at Extreme OC - Price - Abit AN7 nForce2 motherboard starting at 50$! - AMD Sempron 3100+ Socket 754 starting at 121$ ____________________________________________ 12/14/04 - Release nears for 64bit Windows More good news on the Windows' front coming from vnu regarding the the evaluation of the Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: "Microsoft last week launched release candidates for workstation and server versions of 64bit Windows, so firms can test them on 64bit extended chips". Read more here ____________________________________________ Older news here - Comments, suggestions, links here |
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