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| Top Stories for October 26, 2000 (details below) | |
| Electronic News Online |
Culture Clash Erupts Inside Intel Management and engineers do battle over Rambus DRAM |
| C/Net | Notebooks with Transmeta chip arrive in U.S. |
| ZD Net News | Intel's mobile strategy covers all bases |
| The Register Files | |
| The Register | Transmeta speed debate - damned lies and benchmarks? |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of October 22, 2000 |
Older News |
| October 26, 2000 | ||
Culture Clash Erupts Inside Intel
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Intel Corp. is pointing the finger of blame at Rambus Inc. over their disintegrating union while struggling to keep a lid on internal bickering among its own family of engineers.
After years of putting on a unified front in public, Intel has admitted that its alliance with Rambus has not been a happy marriage. "We made a big bet on Rambus and it did not work out," said Craig Barrett, Intel president and chief executive officer, to The Financial Times at the company's recent eXCHANGE e-Business Summit in San Francisco. "In retrospect, it was a mistake to be dependent on a third party for a technology that gates your performance." |
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Notebooks with Transmeta chip arrive in U.S.By Ian Fried October 25, 2000 |
The first laptops using the much-hyped Transmeta chips landed in the United States on Wednesday, and more are likely headed this way.
Tokyo-based Sony is shipping its Vaio C1 PictureBook--a 1-inch thick, 2.2-pound machine based on the 600-MHz Transmeta TM5600 Crusoe chip--to the States, according to Sony's Web site. Until now, notebooks containing Transmeta's chips have been released in Japan only, and in limited numbers. Sony's release could be the beginning of a groundswell. |
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Intel's mobile strategy covers all basesBy John G. Spooner October 25, 2000 |
Hoping to get a head start on AMD, the chip giant offers three high-end, low cost, and low-power chips to notebook PC makers.
Intel Corp. is chasing gigahertz-plus speeds for notebook PCs as it tries to capitalize on delays by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The company plans to ship a trio of gigahertz-speed mobile Pentium III chips, starting early in the second quarter of 2001. Intel's three flavors of 1GHz mobile Pentium III chips will be paired with different manufacturing processes, chip sets, bus speeds and cache sizes. The new chips are also likely to target slightly different market segments. |
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Transmeta speed debate - damned lies and benchmarks?By Andrew Orlowski October 25, 2000 |
Transmeta notebooks have been available for a week now, and although it's been a fascinating week for benchmark mavens, the casual punter hasn't been much enlightened.
Why? Well three serious IT publications have run benchmarks for Sony's new Crusoe laptop in the past week, published them... and disavowed the results immediately. Sorta, kinda. |
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Hitachi to launch Crusoe-powered laptopBy Martyn Williams October 24, 2000 |
Transmeta currently has three variations of the Crusoe microprocessor, the TM3200, TM5400 and TM5600. Each differs in their features but at least one thing remains constant: low power consumption.
It is this feature that is attracting the attention of notebook computer manufacturers. The limited amount of energy available from the machine's battery means manufacturers are keen to adopt any technology that might extend battery life. |
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Intel launches Transmeta counterattack
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Intel Monday announced a chipset aimed at lowering the cost of laptop computers using its Pentium and Celeron processors, the dominant chip company's latest response to threats from AMD and startup Transmeta.
The 815EM supports SpeedStep, Intel's power-saving technology, a new I/O controller hub, dual Ultra ATA/100 hard drive controllers, a LAN connect interface and support for digital surround sound. It is based on Intel's advanced Hub Architecture. |
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Crusoe's pioneering notebook visionBy Jason D. O'Grady October 18, 2000 |
The new Transmeta Crusoe TM5400 microprocessor has the potential to turn the notebook computer world on its ear.
The new chip -- which is about to make its U.S. debut in Sony's VAIO PictureBook PCG-C1VN notebook -- is undoubtedly the single largest innovation to hit mobile computing since the active-matrix display. |
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Intel betting on Pentium 4
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Expect Intel to pump out more megahertz as it attempts to get its processors back on track next year.
The chipmaker plans to launch the Pentium 4 next month, then push the chip's clock speed beyond 2GHz by the middle of 2001. No small task for a company that's seen its last year marred by such gaffes as manufacturing-related chip shortages, 820 chip set problems, and Pentium III 1.13GHz recall. Rival Advanced Micro Devices, meanwhile, has pulled squarely into the desktop chip speed lead. |
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Intel rolls out integrated chip set for mobile marketOctober 23, 2000 |
Stepping up its efforts in the portable computer market, Intel Corp. today introduced an integrated chip set for use in notebook PCs and other products.
Designed for mobile systems based on Intel's Pentium III and Celeron processors, the 815EM chip set integrates core logic, graphics, as well as options to utilize external AGP4X or AGP2X controllers. The new chip set also supports the company's SpeedStep technology featured in mobile Pentium III processors, said Don MacDonald, director of marketing of Intel's Mobile Platforms Group, Santa Clara, Calif. |
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P4 set to bust 2GHz barrier in Q2 next yearBy Andrew Thomas October 24, 2000 |
New Intel confidential roadmaps seen by The Register put more flesh on the bones of Chipzilla's plans for the first half of next year. And the chip behemoth's promise that the P4 ramp will be its most aggressive yet certainly seem to be borne out, assuming everything goes according to plan.
Desktops Pentium 4 is shown at 2GHz or above in Q2 - somewhat earlier than anticipated. The flagchip will also reach 1.7GHz or more in Q1. |
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Pentium 4 to ship bundled with RambusBy Andrew Thomas October 24, 2000 |
With Intel's Pentium 4 launch less than a month away, US distributor Tech Data has posted details of its P4 offerings on its secure site. VARs and resellers planning to offer the chips will have to pay $900 for a 1.4GHz part and $1050 for the 1.5GHz variant.
Both processors come bundled with a (rather miserly) 64MB of PC-800 Rambus memory. |
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ALI joins VIA in race to support P4By Andrew Thomas October 24, 2000 |
ALI is ramping up an Athlon and Duron chipset supporting 266MHz DDR SDRAM ahead of an expected announcement from AMD on the subject next week. The chipset is set to enter production in November.
ALI hopes to have chipsets supporting both the AMD Athlon and Intel's upcoming Pentium 4. It is negotiating with Intel for a license to its Pentium 4 bus, which it hopes to have in time for products that could roll early next year. |
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Hitachi jumps on Crusoe bandwagonBy Andrew Thomas October 24, 2000 |
Hitachi is the latest Japanese laptop maker to adopt the Transmeta Crusoe notebook chip.
The company is expected to announce details of its new B5-sized notebook tomorrow. The potentially very low power consumption of Crusoe is proving irresistible to notebook computer manufacturers, although early machines have so far demonstrated little improvement in battery life over conventional x86 chips. |
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Construction of Intel plant delayed by worker shortageBy Bloomberg News October 20, 2000 |
The opening of Intel's $1.2 billion chipmaking plant in Colorado Springs, Colo., has been postponed until next year because of a shortage of skilled construction workers.
While there are about 3,000 construction workers employed at the site, a tight labor market has made it difficult to find qualified electricians, plumbers and other workers, the Denver Post said. The company discovered this week it wouldn't be able to finish a 120,000-square-foot clean room in time for the planned Thanksgiving Day opening. |
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Intel Desktop CPU and Chipset Roadmap UpdateBy Jon Simon October 23, 2000 |
Once again, we have more information for you about Intel's future plans. Intel has made some drastic changes to their low-end plans since we last updated the roadmap. We have some explanations on what's going on and why. Here today, we are going to bring you an update of our Intel Desktop Roadmap for Consumer and Business CPUs.
This roadmap shows what we believe Intel's future plans to be for their desktop CPUs and chipsets. We compiled this roadmap after speaking with multiple sources close to Intel. We then compared our sources' information and filtered it through our own knowledge to bring you this roadmap. This information is not from Intel nor is it solid fact. This is all from analysis of information from other sources. |
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Where is DDR? We’ve Got It, Says ALiOctober 20, 2000 |
Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALi) today claimed it has achieved “a dramatic improvement” in performance and power consumption in its DDR memory technology compared to the PC-133 platform.
The Taipei, Taiwan-based chipmaker said it could show benchmark tests demonstrating that its DDR memory chip sets consumed 47.7 percent less power than 128Mbyte SDR. |
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Middle East situation worries IntelBy Andrew Thomas October 20, 2000 |
Continuing unrest in the Middle East has caused Intel to relocate the lion's share of Pentium 4 production to its Leixlip plant, near Dublin, Ireland.
Leixlip is already on track to move to the 0.13 micron process, essential for volume production of Pentium 4s running at speeds of more than 2GHz. The proximity of the Qiryat Gat plant (Fab 18) to the hotly-disputed Gaza Strip has led Intel to relocate its prime production of the new chip to the safety of Ireland. |
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