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May 27, 1999
Computer Retail Week
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Intel Corp. will pull in the scheduled price cuts for its Celeron desktop
microprocessors by a month in an earlyattempt to shoulder Advanced Micro
Devices Inc. out of PCs designed for the holiday market.
The price reductions, originally scheduled for July and September, have been reset for June 6 and Aug. 1,
respectively, while the discounts have deepened. The release date for the 500-MHz Celeron has also been
moved up a month to Aug. 1.
By plying OEMs with chip discounts, Intel will try to pump up PC sales during the slow summer months,
while demonstrating a renewed commitment to lower prices, industry sources and analysts said.
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By Robert Lemos
May 27, 1999
ZD Net News
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While PC chip giant Intel Corp. continues to pressure rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. -- Intel will cut Celeron prices next month -- AMD is looking to escape at
the end of the June, when it releases its next-generation K7 processor.
"What we need to do is add solutions from the bottom on up," said Scott Allen, spokesman for AMD. "Initially, we are talking about high performance desktop
systems." Later, business systems and servers that use multiple processors -- each of which can be sold for more than $1,000 -- are possibilities.
That could help Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD) get out of the punch-drunk daze of where it is today, with average selling prices of its processors
bottoming out in the $70 range and pressure from Intel mounting.
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By Mark Hachman
May 27, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Rise Technology Co. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., competing suppliers of Intel-compatible microprocessors, are marking their respective
territories in the notebook-PC market but may wind up fighting over scraps left by the exit from
the market of National Semiconductor Corp.'s Cyrix subsidiary.
Sunnyvale-based AMD has adapted its K6-III desktop microprocessor for the portable space
and is readying a 380-MHz chip - the industry's fastest mobile device (see May 25 story).
Meanwhile, Rise is betting that a migration of its processor production to 0.18-micron line widths
will wring enough cost and power from its mP6, mP6 II, and upcoming Tiger processors to
secure the company's place in the market.
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By Michael Kanellos
May 27, 1999
C/Net
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Hoping to capitalize on recent turmoil in the PC processor market, Rise Technology officially released its roadmap for
chips in the sub-$600 PC market and confirmed it will release a chip compatible with Intel's
Celeron.
As previously reported, Rise Technology will bring out faster chips and one compatible with Intel's Celeron processor.
Rise is one of a handful of companies striving to make a mark in the potentially lucrative, yet highly precarious market for low-cost
PC processors. Millions of PC processors get shipped quarterly, a number that is increasing as prices continue to drop and as
these chips find their way into intelligent set-top boxes. Unfortunately, nearly everyone is losing money fulfilling demand because
of relentless price cuts.
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By Warren S. Hersch
May 27, 1999
Computer Reseller News
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Intel Corp. bucked Wall Street's slide on Thursday, as shares of the chip maker finished up
nearly 3 percent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 235.2 points to 10,466.9, while the S&P 500
dipped 23.4 points to 1,281.4. The technology-laden Nasdaq edged down 8 points to
2,419.2.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel ended the day's trading up $1.44 at $53.13.
However, other blue-chip tech stocks ended down.
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SiliconValley.com
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Intel Corp. has struck a tentative deal with a Portland-area county that could shave as much as $200 million off the company's
property tax bill over the next 15 years.
The agreement with Washington County also would guarantee the county $28.9 million
in fees, even if the world's largest chip-maker never spends another dime in Hillsboro.
Without the program, Intel said it probably wouldn't continue to invest in Oregon
because the company's property taxes would be too high.
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By Mike Magee
May 27, 1999
The Register
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Once we had figured out what Intel was up to, it did not take very long for us to put two
and two together.
Slide number 14 on the HP presentation of IA-64 technology clearly demonstrates that
if you've got 32 bit applications, they're not going to run much faster.
It's a hardware kludge.
So Intel has a definite agendum and it wants all those 32-bit applications to be ported
to the Merced/McKinley platforms.
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By Mike Magee
May 27, 1999
The Register
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Hardware site The Upgrade Center claims to have seen a final sample of AMD's K7
microprocessor.
According to Chris Harrison, the information he has is reliable. The sample is a final
release piece graded at 550MHz with half speed cache.
It booted at 650MHz but was not stable when the cache was enabled, and is about 25
per cent faster at Lightwave than a similar speed Intel Pentium III chip.
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By Mike Magee
May 27, 1999
The Register
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Chip startup company Rise has outlined its roadmap and confirmed it will be
producing a Socket 370 form factor, as revealed here earlier this year.
Thanks to Jonathan Hou at FullOn3d for pointing us to the information.
Rise said that it has started producing samples of mP6-366 and mP6-333 chips to
desktop customers and later on in the year will move to .18 micron process
technology using the 100MHz Super 7 bus.
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By Tom Quinlan
May 25, 1999
San Jose Mercury News
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Intel Corp.'s Merced chips are still a year away from the market, but Intel is already
priming the pump in an effort to spur the creation of software for the radical new
processor design.
Today, the Santa Clara chip company and development partner Hewlett-Packard Co.
will post details of the IA/64 Instruction Set Architecture -- the basis of the new chip --
on their Web sites. Those details will help software developers begin to design
applications for a chip that processes data in chunks of 64 bits, rather than today's 32-bit standard.
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Technology debuts faster mP6 chips to fill Cyrix void.
By Tom Spring
May 26, 1999
PC World
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Rise Technology has stepped up efforts to compete in the cutthroat budget chip-making trade, just as rivals
abandon the market altogether with profits dipping toward their nadir.
Upstart Rise Wednesday outlined a road map for a fast new family of X86 computer chips and announced a
plan to crack open the desktop semiconductor market by using the same processor packaging as Intel's
low-cost Celeron. Rise says it will succeed where others have failed by drastically reducing
chip-manufacturing costs while maintaining quality and technical superiority.
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By Mark Hachman
May 26, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News,
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Microprocessor competitors Rise Technology and Advanced Micro Devices
are marking their respective territories in the notebook-PC market, but may wind up
fighting over scraps left by the exit of National Semiconductor's Cyrix subsidiary.
AMD has adapted its K6-III desktop microprocessor for the portable space and is readying a 380-MHz
chip-the industry's fastest mobile device. Rise, meanwhile, is betting that a migration to 0.18-micron
line widths will wring enough cost and power from its mP6, mP6 II, and upcoming Tiger processors to secure
its place in the market.
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By Mike Magee
May 26, 1999
The Register
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As expected, Intel has now released details of its IA-64 instruction set.
The details were briefly up on Intel's FTP server last week before the chip company
realised it had leaked them…
Earlier this year, Stephen Smith, who heads up the Merced project at Intel, promised
samples would arrive in June.
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By John Lettice
May 26, 1999
The Register
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Intel's Applied Computing Platform Provider (ACPP) program has finally broken
surface, after being accidentally preannounced by program member Texas Micro last
week. (Intel mystery alliance) The deal, basically, seems to be to encourage a
strictly-regulated group of third party board vendors to push forward Intel standards in
specialist/embedded sectors.
Intel refers to this area as 'Applied Computing' and categorises it as consisting of
retail and financial transaction terminals, industrial terminals and communications
systems. The company announced the ACPP program yesterday, alongside a low
power Intel Pentium II targeted at the sector.
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By Mike Magee
May 26, 1999
The Register
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Reports are flying around like confetti on our favourite hardware sites that AMD has
put the wheel clamps on breaches of its K7 non disclosure agreement (NDA).
Leaks are feverishly being plugged by the chip contender, after AnandTech and
FiringSquad produced authentic benchmark information+photos in the run up to the
launch of the EV6 based K7.
According to reports we have seen and verified, AMD is eager to stem any further
leaks, hence the heavy handed action it seems to be taken.
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By Marcia Savage
May 26, 1999
Computer Reseller News
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Aiming to speed development of software applications for Merced, Intel and
Hewlett-Packard Tuesday disclosed details of the IA-64 chip architecture.
Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., and Hewlett-Packard, in Palo Alto, Calif., collaborated on
the IA-64 architecture, which is the basis for Intel's Merced processor and other future 64-bit chips for
high-end servers and workstations.
Details of the application instruction set, architecture features, and the programming model for IA-64
processors were scheduled to be available Wednesday on Intel's and Hewlett-Packard's websites.
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By Chris DeVoney
May 26, 1999
Sm@rt Reseller
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Proclaiming the package to be the most significant change in architecture since the Intel 386, partners Intel
Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday took the wraps off their 64-bit Merced processor.
Developers and the public alike can now surf the vendors' Web sites to review information about the
next-generation processor, which is expected to reach preliminary silicon stages in the next 60 days and reach
production workstations and servers during the second quarter of 2000.
In press conference Monday, the companies revealed the general structure of the CPU. The processor will contain more than 256 internal general-purpose registers,
128 floating-point registers using 84-bit floating point numbers, parallel numeric processing, 64-bit memory addressing (over 1.84 thousand trillion addresses),
MMX and SIMD extension support and symmetrical multiple processor abilities. The vendors say Merced also will maintain full compatibility with the 32-bit
Pentium and HP's PA-RISC MAX2 instructions.
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Semiconductor Business News
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As expected, Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. today released
details of the IA-64 Instruction Set Architecture, which Intel say is the most significant
advancement in its MPU platform since the launch of the 386 microprocessor in 1985.
Details about the IA-64 Instruction Set Architecture have been leaking out, including a recent
appearance on a Web site before Intel pulled the information before today's release, according to
EE Times, a sister publication of SBN (see May 24 story).
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By Marcia Savage
May 25, 1999
Computer Reseller News
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Aiming to speed development of software applications for Merced, Intel Corp. and
Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday disclosed details of the IA-64 chip architecture.
Intel, based here, and Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, collaborated on the IA-64
architecture, which is the basis for Intel's Merced processor and other future 64-bit
chips for high-end servers and workstations.
Details of the application instruction set, architecture features, and the programming
model for IA-64 processors were scheduled to be available Wednesday on Intel's and
Hewlett-Packard's Websites.
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By Andreas Stiller
Volume 10, 1999
c't Magazine
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AMD presents the K7 with 1 GHz, Intel is hardly impressed - and still has problems with the infamous serial number and
is also quarreling with the Taiwanese chip set manufacturer VIA. Philips wants to buy VLSI for 'any price' and finally:
America acknowledges the German computer pioneer Zuse.
At the annual shareholder meeting AMD boss Sanders calmed down the shareholders worried about the low stock price with a
spectacular demonstration of an overclocked 1 GHz K7 processor. A cooling system from the company Kryotech which specializes
in high clocks kept the chip on a constant -40 °C (contrary to what is published on the Internet again and again Kryotech does not use
liquid nitrogen but classic environmental cooling gases). During the meeting the new AMD director Palmer, legendary ex-boss of
Digital, also passed on some trust in the future.
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By Michael Lattig
May 25, 1999
InfoWorld Electric
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The first draft of the Future I/O specification will be available Tuesday, according to an announcement by promotors Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM,
Adaptec, 3Com, and new supporter Cisco Systems.
The draft will be available Tuesday both on the Internet and at the Future I/O Developers Conference, in Santa Clara, Calif.
More than 70 participating companies are expected to be on hand at the Future I/O Developers Conference to review and comment on the standard, which
is designed to speed I/O communications in next generation hardware systems. After the review, the partner companies will get to work on the final draft of
the specification.
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By Mike Magee
May 25, 1999
The Register
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Good old Intel is up to its old weaselly tricks again and is attempting to register the
loop that encloses its Intel Inside legend.
Our take on this is that it must be attempting to prevent people from sticking stuff
inside the loop such as Intel Outside, Ugeek Inside, Chipzilla Inside or whatever.
This is an interesting trademark application. Can Intel really trademark a squiggle?
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By Mike Magee
May 25, 1999
The Register
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Taiwanese chipset manufacturer SiS has now gone live on its 630 technology.
According to the company, the SiS 630 is PC99 and PCI 2.2 compliant, supports
Pentium II/IIIs, Celerons, PC-133 VCRAM/SDRAM, three dual inline memory modules
(DIMMs) and up to 1.5Gb main memory.
It also supports Ultra ATA 66 IDE, five OpenHCI USB ports, ultra-AGPTM architecture,
and digital flat panel interfaces for TV-out, LCD-out and dual view.
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By Tim Richardson
May 25, 1999
The Register
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Using a PC torqued up with a Pentium III chip to access the Internet is like driving a
Ferrari down a dirt track, according to Intel bigwig Dave Hazel.
If only network companies could turn their dirt tracks into super fast freeways then the
Intel Ferrari would really be able to open up and turn a few heads.
Hazell was commenting on a new national survey by MORI which revealed that half of
all Net users in the UK were frustrated by the world wide wait.
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May 24, 1999
EE Times
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Intel Corp. still won't say whether it has taped out
its 64-bit Merced microprocessor, which is due to sample
later this year. But on Wednesday (May 26), the company,
along with Hewlett-Packard Co., will make a major bid to
stoke developers' and OEMs' interest in Merced by
detailing its market plans for the chip and by releasing
long-awaited details on its instruction set. HP is
participating in the announcement — which a
spokeswoman called "Intel's biggest disclosure since
the X86 itself" — because it co-developed the
IA-64 Instruction Set. Merced will be the first
implementation of IA-64; it is scheduled to ship in the
middle of next year.
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By Mark Hachman
May 24, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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As Advanced Micro Devices Inc. here moves its K7 microprocessor closer to a scheduled rollout sometime in June, it is working with chip-set makers
to establish an infrastructure of supporting logic.
According to executives at chip-set maker Via Technologies Inc., AMD will develop and ship a
small number of high-end core logic chip sets for systems that use two or more K7s running in
parallel. Via, meanwhile, will design and supply single-processor chip sets for the higher-volume,
"value-oriented" mass market, according to Dean Hays, director of marketing for Via's U.S.
operations in Fremont, Calif.
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By Michael Kanellos
May 24, 1999
C/Net
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Advanced Micro Devices released low-powered versions of its K6-III processor for notebooks today amid rumors that
yields for the upcoming K7 may be better than expected.
The three new mobile K6-III P processors from AMD give the company an edge over rival Intel. The top K6-III P runs at 380-MHz
and contains 256KB of performance-enhancing secondary cache integrated into the same silicon as the processor. The "P"
indicates that the chips run at a lower voltage than standard K6-III desktop chips.
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By Mike Magee
May 24, 1999
The Register
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As reported here on the 30 April, Merced engineers will now have to get their socks
off if they want to make the due date of the 27 May.
Although two chapters of the Merced manual have appeared -- and disappeared off
the Intel FTP site in the last three days, it does not make the task any easier.
Our friends at sandpile.org alerted us to the fact that the first two chapters were out --
so we got those ones. Here's the logo we photographed from a cup, lest you forget.
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By Mike Magee
May 24, 1999
The Register
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Our good friends on the hardware and gaming sites have, yet again, alerted us to
certain facts we should know. And, at the same time, AMD was responding to pix of
the K7 cartridge with a definite "no-comment".
Meanwhile, Iranian president Katmai was welcoming US president Clinton as a friend
of the federation of American states.
So it's all very confusing, which is what AMD likes to love.
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By Mike Magee
May 24, 1999
The Register
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Hardware site Firing Squad has posted what it claims is a preliminary set of
benchmarks for the up-and-coming K7.
The site said that it had access to a pre-production model and while it wasn't able to
benchmark it to its usual standards, it saw and felt enough of it to give it a reasonable
spin, it claimed.
Pictures of the modestly clad K7 can be found here. We'll ask our contacts at AMD
Euro later today.
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By Michael Kanellos
May 24, 1999
C/Net
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Intel and Hewlett-Packard will publish the instruction set and a programmer's guide for the IA-64 generation of
processors tomorrow, a move that will allow developers to start tuning applications for the platform.
The publication of the instruction set will be the latest in a series of events geared toward easing the commercial adoption of the
IA-64 chip architecture. IA-64 is the official name for the chip design that will form the basis for a series of 64-bit chips for servers
and workstations from Intel. These new chips will compete with established 64-bit processors from Sun Microsystems and
Compaq Computer's Alpha division.
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TechWeb
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Advanced Micro Devices has adapted its K6-III desktop microprocessor for notebook
PCs, while claiming the top spot in notebook microprocessor performance.
AMD, in Sunnyvale, Calif., has designed 350-, 366-, and 380-MHz versions of the new chip, dubbed the
AMD-K6-III-P. The 380-MHz speed grade is the fastest notebook PC microprocessor available
Monday; though rival Intel said it plans to release 400-MHz mobile parts on June 13, according to its
customers.
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By Marcia Savage
May 24, 1999
Computer Reseller News
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Aiming to push higher on the performance scale in the mobilemarket, Advanced Micro
Devices Inc. Monday launched a versionof its K6-III processor for mobile PCs.
The chip maker, based here, is offering the chip, labeled K6-III-P, at clock speeds of 380MHz, 366MHz and
350MHz.
The K6-III-P, the successor to the mobile K6-2 chip, extends AMD's mobile offerings "into the
high-performance notebook space," said Dana Krelle, vice president of marketing at AMD. The vendor is
hoping the chip will boost its presence in the corporate notebook market.
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Ships Mobile K6-III
New chip runs at 380 MHz, has largest
combined system cache.
By Christian McIntosh
May 23, 1999
PC World
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AMD on Monday released its 380-MHz
K6-III-P mobile processor, the fastest x86 mobile PC
processor on the market. Also available in 366-MHz and
350-MHz versions, the AMD K6-III-P processor competes
with Intel's mobile Pentium III and mobile Pentium II
Dixon chips, say AMD officials. AMS Tech is shipping
two new notebooks based on the AMD K6-III-P mobile
processor: the $1695 Roadster CTA and the $1895 Roadster
15 CXA. Both models run on a 380-MHz chip and a 6.4GB
hard drive, 64MB of SDRAM, and a 24X CD-ROM drive.
Compaq will ship a new line of Presario mobile
Internet PCs powered by the K6-III-P chip later this
quarter. The new AMD-based Compaq systems will be
available at the company's "Built For You"
retail kiosks as well as on its Web site, according to
Alex Gruzen, general manager of Compaq's Consumer Mobile
Division.
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By John G. Spooner
May 21, 1999
PC Week Online
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is going for
the "three-peat." The Sunnyvale, Calif.,
company on Monday will ship the mobile version of its
K6-III P processor. AMD sees the new chip as a possible
stepping stone toward a presence in the corporate market
for notebooks.
Despite production glitches and resulting financial
losses, AMD has managed to increase its market share in
the notebook market, thanks to recent design wins from
large OEMs, from about 20 percent at the end of 1998 to
about 47 percent in April, according to PC Data Inc., a
market researcher in Reston, Va.
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AMD and Intel compete for the fastest
x86 processor
By Georg Schnurer
Issue 5, 1999
c't Magazine
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With the Katmai alias Pentium III Intel
wants to stay in the lead in the processor market. A new
instruction set and up to 550 MHz clock frequency are
supposed to put the archenemy AMD in its place. But the
latter was not procrastinating: AMD sends 'Sharptooth'
alias K6-III, a modified K6 processor, into the race that
apart from 3DNow also offers an integrated L2 cache. As
the Roman numbers suggest the new K6-III is targeted at
the Pentium III. In the fight David against Goliath
AMD succeeded in snatching quite a market share from
rival Intel: AMD claims a 36 percent share of all desktop
PCs that were sold in retail stores in the US in December
1998. Despite Intels intensive defense AMD managed to
widely establish the so-called 'Super Socket 7' with 100
MHz system clock after all.
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By Mark Hachman
May 21, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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Intel Corp. will pull in the scheduled
price cuts for its Celeron desktop microprocessors by a
month in an early attempt to shoulder Advanced Micro
Devices Inc. out of PCs designed for the holiday market. The
price reductions, originally scheduled for July and
September, have been reset for June 6 and Aug. 1,
respectively, while the discounts have deepened. The
release date for the 500-MHz Celeron has also been moved
up a month to Aug. 1.
By plying OEMs with chip discounts, Intel will try to
pump up PC sales during the slow summer months, while
demonstrating a renewed commitment to lower prices,
industry sources and analysts said.
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By Jack Robertson
May 21, 1999
Electronic Buyers' News
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You'd think that non-Intel
microprocessors produced in the millions would become a
serious threat to the x86 giant. Forget it. We're now
in the next round of MPU musical chairs for electronic
games and set-top boxes. Incumbents are ousted with great
regularity, and newcomers are assured of orders for only
a relatively short time, until another MPU dogfight
breaks out in the next design cycle.
Intel, meanwhile, remains apart from the
consumer-electronics MPU fray, protected by countless
lines of code for established x86 applications. The chip
titan's concern is with embattled x86 wannabes, who
likewise are outside the consumer MPU fracas.
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By Mike Magee
May 21, 1999
The Register
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Our scoop about Intel sueing our friends
at ViA has been enhanced by a report on our favourite US
site, Techweb, now owned by UK peer Lord Hollick of
Hollick. According to Jack Robertson, a nice hack we
met at a Big Blue conference in London a few years back,
the lawsuit was not the mistake it seemed.
He has seen the papers Intel filed and it looks like
the chip giant is gunning for the rather successful
Taiwanese chip vendor.
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By Mike Magee
May 23, 1999
The Register
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You've got to watch Intel like a hawk.
So we do. The latest trademarks the chip giant has
registered tell a story all their own. As far as we
can see, Itanium is a very wide-ranging trademark which
covers, amongst other things, operating system software,
operating programs, system extensions, software for
connecting PCs, computer hardware, integrated chips,
circuit boards, fax/modems and microprocessors.
The list is huge, so it must be an important one. Here
it is in full.
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By Mike Magee
May 23, 1999
The Register
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An email to our friends at AMD Europe
has elicited a reply, of sorts, to our question about Web
domain ALEREON.COM. As reported here last weekend, AMD
registered the domain name about two weeks ago, and it is
only the fourth domain name the company owns.
Now an AMD executive, Robert Stead, has told us
exactly what his company's positioning against the Intel
Celeron is.
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By Pete Sherriff
May 21, 1999
The Register
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Chipzilla keeps a wary eye on the
competition --or 'imitators' as it so charmingly calls
them -– and posts predictions of the kind of
shipping volumes expected. One anonymous OEM very
kindly shared Old Mother Intel's thoughts on what AMD's
K7 would achieve with The Register.
Intel reckons the K7 will hit 100,000 units in the
third quarter and a whopping 500,000 in Q4.
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By Peter Sherriff
May 21, 1999
The Register
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Now we at The Register™®© are
getting increasingly confused at Intel®'s impenetrable
marketing BS. This, remember, is the company (Intel,
not us) with such a paranoid regard for its brand that
has legally-approved abbreviations for its products in
internal memos –- P3P for Pentium® III, ICP for
Celeron™, AMDMOFOS (you work it out) and so on.
We were given to understand that production Pentium®
III processors wouldn't have the words 'Pentium® III'
silk screened on the SECC2 cartridges they’re
currently shipped in because by the end of the year, Slot
1 will be as dead as the British Conservative party and
all Chipzilla's processors (apart from Xeon) will be
socketed.
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By Mike Magee
May 23, 1999
The Register
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Those people at Corsair have told us
that PC-133 synchronous memory modules are now in full
production. The modules come in 64Mb and 128Mb sizes
and Corsair said they have passed tests on a
pre-production Asus motherboard which uses the ViA
Enhanced Apollo Pro + chipset.
The DIMMs use 7.5 ns (nanosecond) Micron memory.
The modules will work with Intel PC-100 compatible
systems and will give better performance, Corsair
claimed.
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By Mike Magee
May 21, 1999
The Register
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The NGIO forum said today that it is
holding multiple sessions on system challenges and
technology of the input/output (IO) architecture. A
full day tutorial is being hosted next Monday at the
Santa Clara convention centre, with Jon Haas, manager of
Intel's enterprise server group, moderating the panels.
Hewlett Packard, Sun Labs, Synopsys and Finisar will
also make contributions.
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By Mike Magee
May 21, 1999
The Register
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Our friends over at Kryotech are set to
release a family of vapour phase refrigeration products
for ATX cases. The Renegade family will cool your
central processing unit (CPU), that is your
microprocessor, to room temperature.
Hopefully, your room is not too hot.
The Renegade family supports Socket Seven, Slot One,
and Socket 370, with prices around $350.
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