Tech News
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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. -
GeForce FX Pictures @ [H]ard|OCP
Published: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 | By: DennisAt around 1:30 on Tuesday afternoon a sudden realization hit us while at Comdex. We didn't have enough time to see the GeForce FX in action!! nVidia decided to hold their own show at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino, since the Hotel was quite a ways from the Convention Center Comdex attendees needed to ride the bus to and from the Bellagio. Considering we had a plane to catch and many other things to do in between the nVidia tour had to be canceled,
grrr.
Anyhow Kyle was nice enough to post pictures of the GeForce FX, just jump to the last page of their preview to see them. -
Funny NV30 Preview
Published: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 | By: DennisThe NV30 or GeForce FX is a long ways off and in many ways by the time it is released ATI could have so much control of the market nVidia will be left holding their ...... (you get the idea). Anyhow I really liked this guys cartoon toward the bottom.
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64-bit Unreal Tournament AMD Style
Published: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 | By: DennisMan you leave the show and all the good stuff happens. The Inquirer is reporting that AMD is showing off a 64-bit version of Unread Tournament 2003 running on a Athlon 64 at Comdex.
" As AMD says, the Unreal Engine is used for other award winning games, and Mark Rein, VP at Epic Games, said it will ship a 64-bit version of Unreal Tournament when the Athlon 64 chip "show up on retail shelves"."
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ClawHammer Gets a Name
Published: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 | By: DennisThis was announced at a keynote speech by AMD president and CEO Hector Ruiz.
"“AMD Athlon 64” will be the new product name for the company’s upcoming desktop and notebook-use processors based on the K8 core, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced on November 19. The two product lines were previously code-named “Clawhammer.”"
I wasn't able to attend any of the keynote speeches while I was at Comdex so I needed to read about it instead. -
Comdex Day 2 & Site Issues
Published: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 | By: DennisHello everyone, I just got back home from Comdex (short trip I know) and I'm a little jet lagged and need some sleep. I would like to say that Comdex day 2 wasn't as exciting as day 1 (more on that later).
The pictures and writeup should be posted sometime during the course of the day tomorrow.
Until then have a good night. -
SiS and Dual Channel DDR
Published: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 | By: Dennis"Following its launch of the SiS648, Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) on November 18 introduced one more discrete chipset into its Pentium 4-based product line. Featuring AGP 8x support, the SiS655 is also the company’s first dual-channel-DDR333 product."
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Intel has Changed Something?
Published: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 | By: Dennis"Intel on November 15 notified its motherboard clients that it has decided to change its Springdale chipset’s FSB (front-side bus) speed from 667MHz to 800MHz and its memory architecture from dual-channel DDR333 to dual-channel DDR400, motherboard company sources said."
OMfG!!
