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• SiS and VIA Back Away from DDR400 Chipsets

  Published: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "Seeing a recent cool-down in DDR400 fervor, Taiwanese chipset heavyweights Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies have both quietly pulled out from plans to promote DDR400-supporting chipsets."
  
  It would also appear that if motherboard makers wish to release DDR400 enabled products they will need to do their own compatibility testing and support.
  

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• New Branding for AMD

  Published: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Some of you may have heard of this already dubbed the "AMD me" campaign, the news post doesn't cover that much info but I did find this.
  
  "Costing US$28 million, the “AMD me” campaign, targeting both the enterprise and consumer markets, kicked off on September 16 in the US and will be launched in the rest of the world on September 23. The campaign advertisements highlight AMD’s current K7-based desktop-use Athlon XP and forthcoming K8 Athlon and Opteron processors, hoping to strengthen AMD’s overall brand awareness and recognition."
  
  Do you think it will change anything??

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• SATA Review with the Seagate Barracuda @ Lost Circuits

  Published: Monday, September 16, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is a really good and quite lengthy article on Serial ATA. The Lost Circuits guys go into just about every aspect of Serial ATA and why it is better than the Parallel ATA (what we have now).

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• AMD Processor Roadmap *updated*

  Published: Monday, September 16, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I'm thinking maybe by Christmas?

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• China Has Google Again

  Published: Friday, September 13, 2002 | By: Dennis

  " Users in Shanghai and Beijing reported on Thursday that they could once again view Google, widely used by China's 30 million-plus Net users because it has a powerful feature for finding Chinese-language material online. "
  
  According to the report AltaVista is still being rerouted despite the ban being lifted. On a side note check out the PC in the news photo, I sure hope people in China aren't still using IBM PS/2's

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• Hammer Delayed

  Published: Friday, September 13, 2002 | By: Dennis

  " The desktop version of Hammer, which is code-named Clawhammer and will be marketed under the Athlon brand name, will ship to PC manufacturers in the first quarter of 2003 and will hit store shelves toward the end of that quarter or at the beginning of the next"
  
  Delays are inevitable but a missed launch window can really hurt market position, though making sure the chip is ready is the important thing. The next part of the article will not only hurt AMD but will also effect chipset sales for sure.
  
  " Similarly, the company will postpone the commercial release of "Barton," a new version of the Athlon chip with a performance-enhancing 512KB secondary cache, from the second half of this year to the first quarter of next year. "

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• KT400 Board From Soltek

  Published: Friday, September 13, 2002 | By: Dennis

  The latest edition to the Purple Ray series of motherboards from Soltek is called the SL-75FRV, (or SL-75DRV if you look at the HTML page header.) The board reads like a grocery list of chipset features including AGP 8x, DDR 266/333/400 and ATA 133 to name a few.
  
  I do remember seeing a QuakeCon picture of this board with a silver PCB, considering the timeframe I suspect it was a pre-release model.

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• So, Did you go to the Moon??

  Published: Friday, September 13, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin is accused of punching a guy, Bart Sibrel, for being annoying and down right rude (for the sake of his movie).
  
  "I approached him and asked him again to swear on a Bible that he went to the moon, and told him he was a thief for taking money to give an interview for something he didn't do"
  
  Say it aint so plucky say it aint so....
  
  The coolest part of the whole thing, "Buzz", at 72, can still kick ass.

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• Rambus Sent Packing

  Published: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "Bill Siu, vice president and general manager of the desktop platform group, said all new chipsets will support only DDR."
  
  Nuff said

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• Dremel Case Modding Contest

  Published: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Dremel is hosting a case modding contest with a grand prize worth over tree-fiddy ($350). I wonder if you get extra points for using the oldest Dremel?? hummm

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