Tech News
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Would you like smut with that?
Published: Monday, October 14, 2002 | By: DennisThis is too funny,
"The branch in Kilmarnock was offering customers 15 minutes of free internet access with every £1.99 breakfast they bought, while others were charged 50p for 15 minutes.
However, some fast food lovers were spicing up their meals with a little bit of hardcore pornography."
If you can't get into the silicon site Ananova is covering the story as well. -
Intergraph Wins Patent Suit
Published: Friday, October 11, 2002 | By: Dennis"In a major and stunning decision, a U.S. district court in Texas ruled on Thursday that Intel Corp.'s 64-bit processor lines infringe upon Intergraph Corp.'s RISC technology for defining key aspects of parallel instruction computing (PIC)."
This one is costing Intel 150 Million.
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AMD 2400 & 2700+ Processor Review @ got|apex
Published: Thursday, October 10, 2002 | By: Dennis"The AthlonXP 2700+ managed to squeeze out an extra 20MHz above the standard 100MHz which has become the AMD expected overclock, and was perfectly stable at a lofty front-side bus of 176MHz or 352MHz DDR!!! No voltage tweaking was necessary with the 2700+ to get her to settle down at 2,288MHz. Take a moment here and just soak in the fact that we now have an AthlonXP running on a FSB of 176 / 352MHz !!!!! That is truly amazing.... "
Despite the overclock they didn't seem to really be too impressed with the new 333FSB, I really wanted to see some real DDR333/400 memory scores.
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Lack of News
Published: Wednesday, October 9, 2002 | By: DennisSorry for the lack of news, this week has been uber busy for me. Please check out the Cooler Master Neon LED fan review posted above and be sure to check back later this week. I should have another motherboard review for you and so far its looking to be quite an impressive board.
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Cooler Master Neon LED Fan Review Posted
Published: Tuesday, October 8, 2002 | By: DennisYou have seen them before but never like this. The Cooler Master Neon LED fan features 4 blue LEDs, patented rifle bearings and is extremely quiet.
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Albatron PX845E @ SubZeroTech
Published: Tuesday, October 8, 2002 | By: DennisIt would appear that Silver is the hot color for PCB's lately and the Albatron PX845E is no exception. I would quote a little about the review but I can't get their site to do anything in Netscape 7.0, I got images blinking all over the place and even sometimes disappear on mouseover. I couldn’t located a problem in their code so I'm guessing they have some sick twisted love for IE.
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Asus P4PE i845PE Review @ Explosive Labs
Published: Monday, October 7, 2002 | By: DennisWatch your step but Explosive Labs has reviewed the first i845PE mainboard available the Asus P4PE. (Not sure I like the name that much.....) but based on the benchmarks alone I think this chipset from Intel will hit big with the enthusiast crowd.
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DDR333 Chipsets from Intel
Published: Monday, October 7, 2002 | By: DennisThe big news so far is a a few new chipset releases from Intel featuring official DDR333 memory support, Hyper-Threading, and PC1066 RDRAM. We all know that Rambus is on its way out in Intel's eyes and Hyper-Threading won't become a reality until the 3.0GHz processors are released later this year leaving the yummy stuff to be DDR333.
"Intel has released quite a few 845 chipsets in 2002. In fact, after today's official announcement, Intel will have released seven different 845 chipsets this year alone, not including the first 845 chipset that was introduced late last year (PC133-only). These chipsets include the 845D, 845E, 845G and 845GL not to mention today's announcements of the 845PE, 845GE and 845GV. "
Given the virtual alphabet soup of i845 chipsets out there I can imagine this announcement doesn't make many motherboard makers happy. Just imagine the unique inventory problems this could create.
On a side note Soltek released a bios update for the SL-85DR-C allowing you to overclock the i845D chipset to run 533MHz P4's.
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NV30 to Debut at Comdex
Published: Friday, October 4, 2002 | By: DennisIt looks like Comdex should be quite good this year.
"Nvidia has reportedly decided to officially introduce its top-end NV30 chip at the Comdex Fall exhibition, to be held in Las Vegas from November 18-22, after delaying the roll-out for months to change the design from a six-pipeline to eight-pipeline architecture.
Supporting cards will hit the market shortly afterwards and will be launched in at least two different clock speed versions." -
Companies to Profit from Mitsubishi-Hitachi Merger
Published: Friday, October 4, 2002 | By: DennisThe main company to benefit from the merger is Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) being that they will be supplying the logic IC's to what will become Japan's largest semiconductor firm.
"Mitsubishi Electric and Hitachi announced on October 3 that they will merge their system LSI operations into a new company called Renasas Technology, with Hitachi holding a 55% stake and Mitsubishi 45%. According to sources, the combined investment will total 50 billion yen (about US$400 million)."
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"The new company, which will be Japan’s largest semiconductor firm, expects to reach sales of 900 billion yen (about US$7.3 billion) for fiscal year 2003 and leap past Samsung Electronics to become the second-largest semiconductor firm in the world, just behind Intel."
