Tech News
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Comdex Over
Published: Monday, November 25, 2002 | By: DennisWith Comdex officially over a few sites have released their reports of Comdex and as you can guess they had better luck getting in to see other Vendors.
I've seen a few shots of the internal ATI booth along with the elusive AMD meeting room. Like I mentioned in my Comdex write-ups I didn't have a lot of time to spend in Las Vegas so I wasn't able to hit the other hotels and see what they had to offer, and from what I saw quite a few vendors opted to have their shows in hotel convention rooms instead of in the Convention Center.
Two days just wasn't enough
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New Product Schedules Out for Springdale
Published: Monday, November 25, 2002 | By: Dennis"VIA, SiS and ALi release new product schedules due to Springdale changes"
Nothing to outrageous here but it does set some schedules back slightly, while others simply are adapting to the change.
"With samples of its P4X600A expected to be finished in January, VIA is likely to be the first to introduce an 800MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR400 chipset. VIA said that the P4X600A will offer the technology support through overclocking." -
Gigabyte 8INXP Review @ t-break
Published: Monday, November 25, 2002 | By: DennisGigabyte has released their version of a Granite Bay enabled motherboard and according to the specs it is built in typical Gigabyte fashion. Not sure I like the lime green and neon orange treatments but it is unique.
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Ellen Feiss Speaks
Published: Sunday, November 24, 2002 | By: DennisThe stoner chix strikes again, but according to her she wasn't stoned, but does admit to being on drugs at the time. Benedryl
"Does it bother you at all that some of your fame might be related to your perceived state of sobriety in the commercial?
It doesn’t really bother me. I do admit to looking pretty out of it in that commercial — I think I look horrible. It was after school, but I was the last person to make the commercial, so by the time I made it it was like 10, so I was really tired. The funny thing was, I was on drugs! I was on Benedryl, my allergy medication, so I was really out of it anyway. That’s why my eyes were all red, because I have seasonal allergies. But no one believes me." -
Springdale Changes and Pressure
Published: Friday, November 22, 2002 | By: DennisWhile I was at Comdex Digitimes released a story announcing the FSB change for the Springdale chipset saying that it will be accelerated from 133x4 to 200x4. It is unlike Intel to make such an abrupt change in their product lines but I believe in the long run it will be for the best. VIA, SIS and AMD might not think so.
"Taiwanese chipset designers Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies may both feel the impact, industry sources said. SiS, though having Pentium 4 technology licensing from Intel, will need to adjust its product designs and change the FSB standard of its new-generation chipsets, including the SiS648FX and SiS655, from 677MHz to 800MHz."
The only drawback will be the "in-between" products like "Granite Bay" that will in effect be released and almost immediately put out to pasture. -
Nvidia Unveils the Crush K8
Published: Friday, November 22, 2002 | By: Dennis"With AMD incorporating the formerly north bridge-based memory controller into its upcoming K8 processors, the role of the north bridge chip will become rather limited, Drew Henry, Nvidia’s senior director of platform product management said. As a result, Nvidia decided to include the AGP controller interface in the south bridge to shorten motherboard makers’ design time, he added."
According to the article the chipset was only shown to certain customers at Comdex, I didn't even know it existed.
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Granite Bay gets Mixed Support
Published: Thursday, November 21, 2002 | By: Dennis" One of the problems with the Granite Bay chipset is that the motherboard makers have already been told about the 800MHz system bus "Canterwood" chipset, which Intel is now expected to launch in the second quarter of next year."
Man you wait all year for what you think to be the best thing since sliced cheese and they go and change the formula on you. This cycle isn't new and it won't be the last time we see it either. -
NV30 Will Put nVidia back on the Desktop
Published: Thursday, November 21, 2002 | By: Dennis"Nvidia has invested two years of research and nearly US$400 million to develop the NV30 chip after acquiring 3dfx. The NV30 is not only the product that Nvidia has devoted the most resources to in the company’s history, but will also be the product that sets the mainstream specification in the next two years."
The Digitimes interview was translated from a Chinese article, no date cited. -
Comdex 2002 Day 2 Posted
Published: Thursday, November 21, 2002 | By: DennisAfter much delay day two of our trip to Comdex 2002 has been posted. Overall day two wasn't much different than day one, we once again visited with quite a few vendors and also discovered that two days at Comdex just isn't enough.
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Comdex Day 2 Report @ Anandtech
Published: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 | By: DennisBasically these are the highlights.
- Intel Prescott @ 3.20GHz
- New Pentium 4 FSB - 200MHz x 4 = 800MHz!! (posted yesterday)
- AMD "Barton" FSB @ 400MHz
- Dual Channel DDR KT400A
- Athlon 64 release target speed of 2.0GHz (currently at 1.4GHz)
I was really quite surprised as to how the larger companies handled their public relations at Comdex this year. Intel didn't have a booth at all, All we found was a single meeting room located away from anything of interest at Comdex. Once we got there the lady at the front desk said "no admittance without a meeting reservation." Likewise most of the AMD information was released in the keynote speeches and nobody at the booth had a clue what was going on, at least while I was there.
