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| Top Stories for July 28, 2000 (details below) | |
| PC Week | Linux delay costs Transmeta |
| Electronic Buyers' News | Intel to 'investigate' DDR SDRAM for mainstream Pentium 4 PCs |
| The Register Files | |
| The Register | AMD's Kludgehammer we haven't accelerated it |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of July 23, 2000 |
Older News |
| July 28, 2000 | ||
Linux delay costs TransmetaBy Carmen Nobel July 27, 2000 |
There may be a good reason why only one company has announced a Transmeta-based Web pad. The Mobile Linux software isn't ready.
If Mobile Linux had been ready to launch last week, there may have been less hype around Transmeta's Crusoe processor and more excitement about the operating system that will run on it. |
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Intel to 'investigate' DDR SDRAM for mainstream Pentium 4 PCsBy Jack Robertson July 27, 2000 |
Intel Corp. here is bringing focus to its shifting chip set and memory roadmap by confirming that it will "investigate" the use of double-data-rate SDRAM to support its upcoming mainstream Pentium 4 microprocessor.
In addition to turning to independent chip set makers to supply itwith DDR-enabled core-logic controllers, Intel has acknowledged for the first time that it "would investigate developing its own DDR chip set" for Pentium 4. The word followed an announcement earlier this week that the company will make a PC133 SDRAM chip set to support its P4 platform -- in addition to its original plan to support the next-generation processor with Direct Rambus DRAM. |
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AMD's Kludgehammer we haven't accelerated itBy Mike Magee July 27, 2000 |
PR representatives at AMD have obviously been in fevered huddles and have come out with a line on its future 64-bit processor which it codenames Sledgehammer.
Yesterday, we had a telephone call from our local AMD geezer who had a line on the stories we've been running over the course of the last week. |
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Intel's PC133 DRAM support for Pentium 4 another blow to RambusBy Mark Hachman July 26, 2000 |
The Rambus roller coaster has taken an unexpected turn. Intel Corp. now says it is designing a chip set using standard memory for its upcoming Pentium 4 microprocessor.
On Tuesday, Intel--which previously said it would tie only Rambus Inc.'s Direct Rambus DRAMs to the Pentium 4--confirmed plans to build a P4 chip set using mainstream PC133 memory. The news came as a complete surprise to the industry and could be a setback for Rambus' efforts to establish its DRAM architecture as the leading memory for next-generation PCs. Sources said top-tier OEMs were notified Monday night. Intel publicly disclosed the information Tuesday afternoon, although the chip set has been the subject of rumors for many months. |
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Does Intel's PC133 memory support open a can of worms?By Jack Robertson July 26, 2000 |
Intel Corp.'s admission that it will support PC133 synchronous SDRAMs with its upcoming Pentium 4 microprocessor paves the way for the company to also back double-data-rate
(DDR) SDRAM, according to observers. Intel on Tuesday confirmed industry rumors that it was planning PC133 chip-set support for the Pentium 4 despite its previous stance of backing only Rambus DRAMs (see news story).
With Intel unwilling to commit solely to Direct Rambus DRAM for its new chip, support for DDR SDRAM may be necessary if the P4 is to compete on a par with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Athlon processors -- which are already pledged to DDR through their core-logic interface. |
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Rambus drops on Intel's Pentium 4 decisionBy Michael Kanellos July 26, 2000 |
Shares of semiconductor designer Rambus tumbled today following Intel's announcement that the controversial memory based around Rambus' designs won't be the only option for Pentium 4 desktop PCs.
Rambus, one of the more volatile and polarizing technology stocks, sunk more than 11 percent today to close at $75.50. In the past 52 weeks, the company's stock has swung from a low of $14.62 to a high of $135, and that's accounting for a 4-for-1 split. |
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Acer to ship core logic to Intel, AMDBy Jayant Mathew July 26, 2000 |
Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALi) today unveiled core logic chipsets that support double data rate (DDR) memory for Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors.
The Taiwanese company introduced Aladdin Pro 5 and Aladdin Pro 5M, chipsets that support Intel’s Pentium II, Pentium III and Celeron processors, and ALiMAGiK 1 and MobileMAGiK 1 chipsets designed for AMD’s Athlon, Duron and mobile Athlon processors. |
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Acer Labs rolls out DDR chipset for Intel, AMD processorsBy Faith Hung and Jack Robertson July 26, 2000 |
Acer Laboratories Inc. has introduced its first double-data-rate
(DDR) SDRAM-enabled chipsets that support microprocessors made by Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
ALI, Taipei, Taiwan, joins a pack of third party chipset makers with announced DDR logic controllers which are expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter. The DDR chipsets are designed for desktop and mobile PCs using Intel's Slot 1/Socket 370 family of CPUs, including Pentium III, Pentium II, and Celeron, as well as AMD's Athlon and Duron chips, according to ALI. |
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Intel veers from Rambus-only plans for Pentium 4By Michael Kanellos July 25, 2000 |
Intel will come out with a chipset next year for the Pentium 4 geared to work with standard memory, the company confirmed today, a move that raises questions about the future of Rambus-based memory.
Intel spokesman George Alfs said today that the company will come out with a chipset, a crucial set of chips that connect the processor with the rest of the computer, that will allow computer makers to build Pentium 4 computers with ordinary SDRAM memory running at 133 MHz. |
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Intel turns to Taiwan for third-party DDR chipsetsBy Faith Hung and Jack Robertson July 24, 2000 |
In a newfound spirit of cooperation, Intel Corp. is turning to third-party chipset vendors to fill a competitive void by supplying the processor giant with core-logic chipsets. But how long will the goodwill last?
Saddled with a contractual clause that prohibits it from making double-data-rate SDRAM-enabled chipsets, Intel is leaning on Taiwan's IC makers to help it fend off a challenge from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. AMD, which has no such restrictions regarding its choice of memory technology, is also tapping Taiwan's independent IC makers in an effort to gain market share for its Athlon MPU. |
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Who knows where Intel will be in five years?
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Deep in research labs flung across three states and three countries, researchers and scientists at Intel are conjuring the technology behind the company's next big initiatives -- projects that are far beyond its roots as the world's largest chipmaker.
Everyone has heard the "Intel Inside" slogan. Welcome to inside Intel, the research and development laboratories where the future of Intel -- and perhaps the future of a good chunk of the computing industry that piggybacks on the company's initiatives -- is being shaped. |
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The future of chips, Intel style
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Intel Corp. predicts that PC chips will climb to more than 10GHz from today's 1GHz standard by the year 2011.
It's Intel's Microprocessor Research Labs' responsibility to make it happen. Spread out in locations around the world, including Hillsboro Ore., Santa Clara, Calif., Haifa, Israel, and Beijing, China, Intel's main repository of processor design knowledge is working to turn up the juice on future chips. |
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IBM vs Intel: Whose research gets results?John G. Spooner July 25, 2000 |
While Intel ties its research closely to products, IBM takes a broader approach. Which one is better?
IBM, for example, takes out many, many more patents per year than Intel. But are those patents a measure of success? The basic difference between the two companies and the way they approach research is Intel's focus on products, as compared with IBM's much broader approach. |
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Intel boosting Pentium III speed to vie with AMD's Athlon chipsBy Jack Robertson July 24, 2000 |
Intel Corp.'s yet-unannounced mainstream Pentium 4microprocessor is lagging newer versions of Advanced MicroDevices Inc.'s
Athlon, according to industry observers, leading the company to breathe new life into its aging Pentium III line.
The mid-end Intel chip will be preceded by a high-performance Pentium 4, previously known as the Willamette, which will appear in high-end desktops in the fourth quarter and then scale to the mainstream PC later next year, sources said at last week's Platform 2000 conference in San Jose. |
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Itanium poses new challenges for IntelJohn Dodge July 25, 2000 |
Could the Itanium chip still pack a punch for Intel, despite a fraught series of problems and delays?
After more than a year of delays, it's hard to get excited about Intel's first IA-64 microprocessor, Itanium, whose arrival Intel once again pushed back last week, this time from the third to the fourth quarter. Such is the way with new chips. But just because it's out of sight doesn't mean it should be out of mind. |
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AMD Sledgehammer samples shipBy Mike Magee July 24, 2000 |
Sources close to AMD have reported that first real silicon is expected for its 64-bit microprocessor, codenamed Sledgehammer, as early as next month. Engineering samples of the chip are already with large PC customers.
That news is likely to horrify Intel executives who were forced to admit last week that delivery of its Itanium processor slipped a quarter, due to unspecified difficulties. |
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Transmeta strikes .13 micron notebook strokeBy Mike Magee July 24, 2000 |
Transmeta is likely to be first to the market with .13 micron technology available in notebooks, although sources familiar with the firm's plans have said that it is now likely to be the second half of next year before Crusoe products are widely
avilable.
Earlier this year, the firm was telling Taiwanese notebook manufacturers that a TM5800 1GHz processor was likely around the end of the year, as reported here. |
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Intel to bring SDRAM to Pentium 4By John G. Spooner July 25, 2000 |
Intel Corp. today will make public its plans to support synchronous dynamic RAM for its forthcoming Pentium 4 chip.
The news is important because it will help PC makers bring the cost of Pentium 4 systems down. The chip maker has added to its road map a new chip set that will support 133MHz SDRAM, known as PC133, for the Pentium 4. |
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Intel adds PC133 memory support to Pentium 4By Mark Hachman July 25, 2000 |
The Rambus roller coaster took an unexpected turn Tuesday when Intel said it is designing a chipset using standard memory for its upcoming Pentium 4 microprocessor.
Intel (stock: INTC), which previously said it would tie the proprietary Rambus (stock: RMBS) memory to the Pentium 4, confirmed it also plans to build a P4 chipset using mainstream PC133 memory. |
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Sun, Intel part ways on Solaris plansBy Stephen Shankland July 21, 2000 |
Sun Microsystems and Intel finally are seeing eye to eye on whether Sun's Solaris operating system should run on Intel's upcoming Itanium chip: Now both companies think it's a lousy idea.
In February, Intel drastically cut its support of Sun's effort to bring Solaris to Itanium, saying that Sun wasn't sufficiently committing resources or time to the project. Then the squabble escalated: Sun reaffirmed its plan to bring Solaris to Itanium, while Intel broadly hinted that Sun had become its primary competitor, and target, in the server market. |
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HP, Intel Push Hard for IA-64 ArchitectureBy Joel D Pinaroc July 21, 2000 |
Hewlett-Packard Corp. (HP) and Intel Corp., co-inventors of IA-64 architecture, are anticipating that the global market will adopt the new 64-bit computing architecture, in as early as five years from now.
Representatives of the two companies at a regional press briefing held here are anticipating that a "crossover" will occur five years from now in which corporate customers will invest more on new and upcoming 64-bit systems such as IA-64. |
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Wall Street gives cool reception to Intel and MicrosoftBy Robert Jaques July 21, 2000 |
Leaders in the software, hardware and Internet sectors all reported encouraging news in the US this week. However, the reception from Wall Street was cool as closer inspection of figures and trading statements from Microsoft and Intel in particular showed investments rather than operational achievements were largely to blame for their progress.
On the software front, Microsoft posted impressive end of year figures on Tuesday. Sales increased by 16 per cent to $23bn while profit jumped by more than a fifth to $9.42bn. |
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AMD and Intel at Reichenbach Falls: Part IJuly 21, 2000 |
Both AMD and Intel released their second quarter earnings this week, and, despite the figures being particularly healthy, the announcement was greeted by financial analysts with words of caution - investor beware, these two are squaring up for yet another margin crushing price war.
The figures were as follows: AMD reporting a record revenue increase of $1.17 billion compared to the $595.1 million of the previous year. Intel, on the other hand, reported a net income of $8.3 billion increase over $6.7 billion. |
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Intel red-faced over Red Hat erratumnotbugBy Mike Magee July 20, 2000 |
A large UK university - we're not naming names - is livid because of an Intel erratum which is preventing it from rolling out 1U headless servers running RedHat Linux, which it wanted to adminster remotely.
But a problem at Emission Boulevard, Intel's HQ, means that the boffins at the uni, rather than install commodity x86 boxes, may be forced to go with the opposition because of an erratumnotbug in the pipeline. |
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Intel server maps show Foster incursionBy Mike Magee July 22, 2000 |
Boxed processor roadmaps which Intel has shown its distributor and dealer channel show it on course to introduce product at the end of Q1 next year, with eight way systems the target of Chipzilla's desire.
However, top systems designated on the roadmaps as 8-way+ will be dominated by the Cashcades Xeon processors, with 550/2MB, 700/2MB and 900/2MB ruling the roost in Q3 and Q4 of this year, and Q1 of next year. |
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Intel revamps boxed chip roadmapsBy Mike Magee July 21, 2000 |
Intel has, at last, promised succour to its channel partners, many of which took the brunt of processor shortages this year in favour of large PC vendors.
The firm has told its distributors and dealers of its plans for the boxed desktop, server and workstation market, according to channel confidential documents seen by The Register. Earlier this year, Intel had warned system integrators of serious delays in supplying boxed processors, leading some to switch to rival Advanced Micro Devices. |
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