Tech News
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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."
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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.
