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| Top Stories for December 20, 2001 (details below) | |
| C/Net | New P4 chipset sneaks into market |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
| The Inquirer | Intel to intro three McKinley processors |
| The Inquirer | Pentium 4 533MHz FSB confirmed for early Q2 |
| The Inquirer | Pentium 4 mobile plans reveal Intel moves |
| The Inquirer | Montara the chipset for value mobile P4s |
| The Inquirer | AMD makes more chip moves |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of December 16, 2001 |
Older News |
| December 20, 2001 | |
New P4 chipset sneaks into marketBy John G. Spooner December 18, 2001 |
Intel provided PC buyers with some new options on Monday, as
double data rate memory quietly made its debut alongside the
Pentium 4. Dell Computer, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and other PC makers have started to sell Pentium 4 PCs containing DDR SDRAM, a faster version of standard memory, via their Web sites. The combo is made possible through a new version of Intel's 845 chipset. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Intel to intro three McKinley processorsBy Mike Magee December 19, 2001 |
WHILE INTEL WILL BE piloting its McKinley 64-bit processor
during the first weeks of next year, it will not be launched
formally until the second quarter and will come in three
types, we can reveal. Intel will release a 1GHz version with 3MB of cache, a 1GHz version with 1.5MB cache, and a 900MHz version with 1.5MB cache. And Intel has also notified its PC manufacturers of the prices of these parts, which will be $4,220, $2,240, and $1,330. |
Pentium 4 533MHz FSB confirmed for early Q2By Mike Magee December 18, 2001 |
THE FIRST 533MHz front side bus boxed Pentium 4s at 2.40GHz
will be offered early in Q2, confirming our earlier stories. Roadmaps seen by us show that early in Q2 Intel's top desktop chip will be a 2.40GHz processor which comes in both 400MHz and 533MHz front side bus versions, both of which include 512K level two cache. In the same period, Intel wil make a 2.26GHz Pentium 4 and a 2.20GHz Pentium 4 available with the 533MHz front side bus, and available in boxed versions. |
Pentium 4 mobile plans reveal Intel movesBy Mike Magee December 18, 2001 |
NEW ROADMAPS SEEN the INQUIRER show that Intel will supersede
its boxed Pentium III notebook chips towards the end of the
first quarter next year, to replace them with the Pentium 4. The introduction of .13 micron Pentium 4s is in line with other large PC customer roadmaps seen by the INQUIRER, but differs in one important respect. In other roadmaps, Intel appears to be keeping Pentium IIIs going for the whole of next year. |
Montara the chipset for value mobile P4sBy Mike Magee December 19, 2001 |
A GLIMPSE AT Intel's hidden plans for the Pentium 4 mobiles it
will launch next year has revealed the codename - Montara GML
- for the integrated graphics chipset for the Pentium 4. The Montara GML chipset will be used for mobile .13 micron Pentium 4 processors in the "value" segment of the market but will not be released until the first quarter of 2003. Other mobile plans Intel has in mind are largely unchanged, except that it will introduce a mobile Pentium III-M at 1.26GHz in Q3 of next year. |
AMD makes more chip movesBy Mike Magee December 18, 2001 |
REPORTS ON A WEB site suggest that AMD is making more
significant changes to its future roadmap than at first seems
apparent. According to CPU Times, not only is AMD dropping Morgan - which is not too much of a surprise - but it is positioning its 64-bit Clawhammer processor core as a mobile chip, the site says. There is also an interesting Q&A on the site with AMD which seems to spill rather more beans than most. |
| December 17, 2001 | |
Intel Loses $82M Legal Bid Against BroadcomBy Alex Romanelli December 14, 2001 |
Intel Corp. today lost a bid for $82 million in damages from
Broadcom Corp. in a patent infringement case. A jury found that one of Intel's patents concerning computer networking, U.S. Patent No. 4,975,830, was invalid and therefore could not be infringed. A second patent, U.S. Patent No. 4,823,201, concerning video compression technology was not infringed by Broadcom, the jury decided. "Clearly we are disappointed with the jury’s verdict and we respectfully disagree with their ruling," said Intel’s spokesman. "We are still evaluating their decision and attempting to make a decision about what we’ll do next in regard to these two patents." |
Intel loses patent bid against BroadcomBy Reuters December 14, 2001 |
Chipmaking giant Intel has lost a bid for $82 million in
damages after a jury found Friday that rival Broadcom did not
infringe on two Intel patents. One patent was for a processor for expanding a compressed video signal, which the jury found was a valid patent but that Broadcom didn't infringe on it, an Intel spokesman said. The other patent, for computer networking, was found both invalid and not infringed upon by Broadcom. |
Intel says court denies AMD petition on documentsBy Jack Robertson December 14, 2001 |
Intel Corp. on Friday said the Federal District Court in San
Jose, Calif. has denied Advanced Micro Devices' motion to
unseal documents in a separate antitrust case. AMD wanted the documents to be available to the European Commission for its antitrust probe of Intel. Intel was notified of the ruling but hasn't yet received the background memorandum behind the decision, a spokesman said. |
Pentium 4: Too hot to handle?By John G. Spooner December 12, 2001 |
When Intel's Pentium 4 comes to notebooks next year, consumers
will discover a boost in computing power--and possibly an
extra fan. The new mobile Pentium 4 chip, which sources familiar with Intel's plans say will launch in late March or early April, will run at 1.6GHz and 1.7GHz--faster than any other portable chip. But sources say the new Pentium 4 will also be much more power hungry than current Pentium III-M processors, which go up to 1.2GHz, or current Athlon 4 mobile chips from Advanced Micro Devices. |
AMD launches Athlon processor, new chip set for multiprocessing systemsDecember 12, 2001 |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today launched a new Athlon
microprocessor and chip set with special architectural
features to perform multiprocessing applications in server and
workstation systems. The Athlon MP processor 1900+ contains what AMD calls a QuantiSpeed architecture and Smart MP technology to improve performance and reliability in multiprocessing servers and workstations. AMD said the new 32-bit processor and AMD-760 MPX chip set integrate "seamlessly into existing infrastructures" and provide stability and manageability for information technology managers. |
Taiwan's Via rolls out integrated chip set for AMD's mobile processorsDecember 12, 2001 |
Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. today announced a new version
of its integrated chip set line for mobile systems, based on
Advanced Micro Device Inc.'s microprocessors. The new VIA ProSavageDDR KN266 chip set is optimized for AMD's Athlon 4 and Duron family of mobile processors. Supporting 266-MHz double-data-rate SDRAM products, the KN266 from Taipei-based Via is said to be 30% faster than the company's previous chip line, dubbed the VIA ProSavage KN133. |
Transmeta delays 0.13-micron chips due to production glitches at TSMCDecember 12, 2001 |
Citing production problems within its key silicon foundry
partner--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC)--Transmeta
Corp. here today announced that it has delayed volume
shipments for its new 0.13-micron microprocessor lines by
about four months. Troubled Transmeta also disclosed that the product delays would cause a major shortfall of sales in its fourth quarter, which ends Dec. 28. In the quarter, the company said it will only report $1 million in sales, an 80% decline from the third quarter of 2001 and a 91.9% drop from the like period a year ago. |
Transmeta revenue diving on more delaysBy Michael Kanellos December 12, 2001 |
Troubled chip designer Transmeta said Wednesday that
fourth-quarter revenue will come to only $1 million because of
further delays for its latest processors. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, which designs energy-efficient chips for notebooks, admitted that fixing problems with its Crusoe 5800 and 5500 chips has been more difficult than expected. The problems are now repaired, the company said, but volume production of the chips won't happen until early February. |
| Truths...from the rumor mill | |
Dell drops Itanic workstationBy Mike Magee December 15, 2001 |
OVER AT VAN'S HARDWARE there was a story yesterday that Dell
had decided demand for the Itanium workstation it's been
selling is such that it's going to drop it. That' been
confirmed by Dell now and you can find the original coverage
here. Josh Walrath at Penstarsys has an article about Intel's state today, compared to days of yore. There's a review of a Solarism 15-inch LCD monitor over at the Pabster. |
Intel steps up X86-64 skunkworksBy Mike Magee December 12, 2001 |
INTEL IS STEPPING UP its X86-64 "skunkworks" paralleling
reports that sales of its long-awaited IA-64 platform are not
doing as well as expected. A report on c't today claimed that Intel customers have only sold 500 Itanium based systems since the product was officially launched earlier this year. That follows a story on Cnet yesterday which also delineated how systems were shaping up, saleswise. |
Intel reveals hyperthreading rulesBy Mike Magee December 13, 2001 |
CHIP GIANT INTEL has placed a mass of detail on its Web site
about the advantages of hyperthreading technology. As revealed here earlier, Linux developers have already enabled multithreaded processes (SMT - simultaneous multithreading) for desktop Pentium 4s. The information on the Web site is the most complete presentation of hyperthreading we've seen from Intel, which claims you can improve the use of a CPU by around 40 per cent using the technology. |
Intel trade secret stealer sent down for two yearsBy Tony Smith December 14, 2001 |
A former Intel engineer was yesterday sentenced by the San
Jose District Court to two years for stealing details of the
chip giant's Itanium processor. Say Lye Ow, 31, was found guilt last September of misappropriating Intel trade secrets in violation of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. The engineer left Intel three years ago, but decided to hang on to details of the not yet announced Itanium chip. His act was discovered when the information turned up computers belonging to Sun, his new employer. |
Appeal Court upholds Intel ex-staffer's email injunctionBy Tony Smith December 13, 2001 |
The US Third District Court of Appeal in California has ruled
that ex-Intel staffer Kourosh 'Ken' Hamidi did indeed commit
an act of trespass upon his former employer's computer system
when he sent anti-Intel emails to 65,000 company workers. The Court's decision essentially upholds the judgement of the lower court, made in April 1999, and backed a request made by Intel, which had sought a permanent injunction banning Hamidi from contacting its employees via its own network. |
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