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ABIT readies 100MHz Socket 7 AGP board
News Taiwan's ABIT today lent a hand to the non-Intel x86 world by announcing the first 100MHz Socket 7 AGP motherboard. Formerly, users wanting access to Intel's accelerated graphics port (AGP) capabilities had to go with Intel's own Pentium II and...
[January 20, 1998, 10:41]
Cyrix dumps socket 7 and leaves AMD in the cold
News Steve Tobak, the company's VP for corporate marketing, told ZDNet News the socket 7 design would be abandoned, possibly by Q2 next year, when its bandwidth achieves 133MHz. We wouldn't want to continue with socket 7 after 133MHz.said Tobak, who...
[March 20, 1998, 16:31]
AMD chipset move breathes life into Socket 7
News Based on technology licensed from Californian chipset giant VIA, the chipset is described by AMD as "the first product in a broad initiative to ensure the Socket 7 infrastructure supports feature sets at the leading edge of the marketplace over...
[March 13, 1997, 17:19]
Five years ago: AMD chipset move breathes life into Socket 7
News Based on technology licensed from Californian chipset giant VIA, the chipset is described by AMD as "the first product in a broad initiative to ensure the Socket 7 infrastructure supports feature sets at the leading edge of the marketplace over...
[March 12, 2002, 6:01]
Abit almost there with Socket 7 AGP board
News The Taiwan firm expects samples of the board in mid-to-late January. It will ship in two flavours: the first with two DIMM, three PCI and two ISA slots; the second with three DIMM, four PCI and three ISA slots.
[December 19, 1997, 9:43]
Exclusive: Intel dumps Slot 1 for Mendocino
News Instead, Mendocino, which Intel hopes will receive a more positive reaction than its predecessor the Celeron, will sit on a pin grid array (PGA) similar to socket 7. Intel has confirmed the report saying "the socket is a PGA called socket 370 and...
[June 17, 1998, 16:08]
AMD plans to beat Intel's best in '98
News Moreover, it plans to achieve that lofty goal without moving away from the tried and trusted Socket 7 architecture. Just as Intel used PCI as a crowbar to move people form 486 to Pentium, AGP will be Intel's crowbar to move people from Socket 7 to...
[October 27, 1997, 11:48]
Intel to create 266MHz MMX mobile chips
News The chip is likely to be the last one that Intel develops for the Socket 7 infrastructure before it moves to slots. Socket 7 is the motherboard socket into which a chip is placed. The majority of motherboards and chip sets today support Socket 7.
[July 24, 1997, 9:19]
A Year Ago: AMD plans to beat Intel's best in '98
News Moreover, it plans to achieve that lofty goal without moving away from the tried and trusted Socket 7 architecture. Just as Intel used PCI as a crowbar to move people form 486 to Pentium, AGP will be Intel's crowbar to move people from Socket 7 to...
[October 27, 1998, 5:59]
One Year Ago: Intel create 266MHz mobile chips
News The chip is likely to be the last one that Intel develops for the Socket 7 infrastructure before it moves to slots. Socket 7 is the motherboard socket into which a chip is placed. The majority of motherboards and chip sets today support Socket 7.
[July 24, 1998, 6:00]
Chip newcomer aims low
News The parts slot straight into standard Socket 7 motherboards. The firm said integer performance, floating point and MMX performance will all be boosted in the new design without affecting die size or Socket 7 compatibility.
[October 16, 1997, 16:04]
First AGP chipset to ship next week
News Not to be outdone, AMD's chipset partner VIA plans to port AGP to Socket 7, allowing its K6 and other Socket 7 processors to support the standard. The release of the 440LX PCIset, to give it its full name, will mean that Pentium II system makers...
[August 20, 1997, 11:02]
A Year Ago: First AGP chipset to ship next week
News Not to be outdone, AMD's chipset partner VIA plans to port AGP to Socket 7, allowing its K6 and other Socket 7 processors to support the standard. Intel will next Monday kick off a new age in PC graphics when it releases the first chipset to...
[August 18, 1998, 7:32]
Is there life left for low-cost chips?
News The company does plan to forge ahead with MP6 processors that are compatible with the Socket 7 and Super Socket 7 platforms, which are used widely in low-end PCs. Ultimately, that might be good for PC buyers.
[October 12, 1999, 8:53]
Eye2Eye with AMD's Jerry Sanders, Part II
News We're delighted with the demand we've seen this quarter for what we call SuperSet -- that's Socket 7 running at 100MHz. How long does AMD intend to support the socket architecture? How important to AMD is support from Microsoft and, say, the Linux...
[March 2, 2000, 11:31]
Sun launches Shanghai-based servers
News Sun's new systems include two Sun Blade blade servers: the Sun Blade X6440, a four-socket blade server supporting up to 32 Dimm memory slots, with pricing starting at $14,105 (£9,578); and the Sun Blade X6240, a two-socket system supporting up to...
[December 9, 2008, 16:41]
Intel predicts imminent SSD mass adoption
News Saleski also demonstrated an experimental system, where seven SSDs with PCI Express interfaces were accessed in parallel and delivered over a million data requests per second — a throughput of around 4Gbps — to a dual-socket Intel Xeon 5500 server.
[September 24, 2009, 10:38]
IE7 gives green light to trusted websites
News This is a new type of security certificate being sold by the same companies that sell Secure Socket Layer, or SSL, certificates that allow traffic to be encrypted and that are indicated by a yellow padlock in web browsers.
[February 5, 2007, 7:35]
Sun goes big with blade servers
News The eight-socket market today — despite IBM's investment, and Sun I don't think is going to move this at all — was 0.7 percent of units shipped. Sun is aiming the X4600 squarely at HP's four-socket Opteron-based DL585, with competitive pricing for...
[July 11, 2006, 13:05]
AMD posts stellar growth
News AMD only plans to introduce one major technology upgrade during the year, its AM2 socket, which is not expected to provide a huge performance boost according to early reviews. Meyer acknowledged that the AM2 socket's introduction of DDR2 memory...
[April 13, 2006, 9:10]
