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AMD introduces Socket 939 Athlon 64 chips review
Reviews HyperTransport bus speed The latter, the $710 Athlon 64 3700+, has 1MB of L2 cache and an 800MHz HyperTransport bus, together with a single-channel 64-bit memory interface. The three new chips in this format all have dual-channel 128-bit memory...
[June 1, 2004, 9:10]
Intel gives a peek at future PC designs
News The dozen or so devices shown Tuesday represent the vision of Intel's "Legacy Free" initiative that will do away with old technologies such as parallel and serial ports, the ISA bus and game ports, replacing them with the newer USB ports, IEEE...
[February 25, 1999, 9:34]
Eye2Eye with AMD's Jerry Sanders, Part II
News And with that, you know a 100MHz bus is not a very exciting solution. When we said we were going to go to a 100MHz front-side bus with the K62, up until then the front-side bus was 66MHz. A 700MHz part with a 200MHz bus is a lot more interesting.
[March 2, 2000, 11:31]
Intel seeks chip set domination
News To develop these chip sets you need access to the (sixth-generation bus design)," said Intel spokesman Chuck Malloy. When Intel announced the Pentium II in May 1997, it mapped out what it called the P6, or sixth-generation, bus-the high-speed data...
[March 16, 1998, 9:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The briefing is interesting enough without being world-shattering: Intel's feeling pleased with the progress of Infiniband, a 2.5Gbps bus system designed to get storage systems away from the confines of the PCI bus.
[July 20, 2001, 16:41]
Pentium 4: More speed in the pipeline
News Earlier, some analysts speculated that Springdale would come with a 667MHz bus. Among other tasks, the chipset creates a data path, or system bus, between the processor and a computer's memory. Overall, the increase in bus speed could boost...
[January 13, 2003, 8:11]
AMD accused of patent violation
News The technology is designed to shorten the delay of an inquire cycle when a PCI bus controller receives a data transfer request from a PCI bus master. Opti, a chip-oriented intellectual property company, has filed a lawsuit alleging that AMD...
[November 20, 2006, 8:18]
Intel's portable Timna to debut at 700MHz, (Part II)
News The bus that communicates between Timna and the rest of the world, however, will be Intel's Accelerated Hub Link Architecture, present in 800-series chip sets. Combining the CPU and memory controller chips eliminates the need for a system bus...
[September 8, 2000, 13:18]
Rambus-powered PCs in the works
News The new chip set is significant for Intel because it replaces the ageing 440BX chip set, which offers a 100MHz system bus and support for synchronous dynamic RAM. The 820 also supports a 100MHz bus and 100MHz SDRAM as well, should a PC maker decide...
[November 2, 1999, 8:23]
Five years ago: Intel puts MMX, Ultra DMA, AGP into chipsets
News The TX supports power management, Universal Serial Bus (USB), concurrent PCI, and both synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) and EDO RAM. The LX is targeted at servers and high-end desktops and will be the first chipset to support Intel's Accelerated Graphics...
[September 16, 2001, 8:30]
New AMD chip set to boost Athlon PCs
News It will be paired with a 200MHz bus and will likely ship in PCs more in the mid-range of the market. The AMD 760 also has the ability to support a 200MHz front-side bus To go with the faster bus, AMD announced three new Athlon chips that each...
[October 31, 2000, 8:58]
Hitachi's storage launch undeterred by HP
News Other products are bus-based, and slower," said Plumridge. In all this, HDS has promised to obey standards, in particular the Common Information Model (CIM) and the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), both of which have been endorsed by the...
[May 9, 2002, 10:03]
Inside Intel's Sonoma review
Reviews Most of the new Pentium M processors have a 533MHz frontside bus. Most of the new Pentium Ms have a 533MHz frontside bus (FSB), giving what Intel claims is a 33 percent increase in memory data transfer over the previous chip's 400MHz.
[January 19, 2005, 8:40]
AMD unveils pumped-up Duron
News The Duron comes with a 200MHz bus, or data channel, compared with the 100MHz bus that comes with the Celeron. A faster bus typically leads to better performance. Advanced Micro Devices has released a 900MHz version of its Duron processor to try to...
[April 3, 2001, 8:09]
Tape Automation: Dell TL2000/4000 Driver Version: A04
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:IBM MAGSTAR 3490 TAPE DRIVE IBM MAGSTAR 3590 TAPE DRIVE IBM TOTALSTORAGE 3592 TAPE DRIVE IBM ULTRIUM TAPE DRIVE IBM ULTRIUM 3580 TAPE DRIVE IBM ULTRIUM II TAPE DRIVE IBM ULTRIUM II 3580 TAPE DRIVE...
[August 31, 2007, 8:00]
AMD unveils 750MHz Duron
News It has 192kB of primary and secondary cache compared to the Celeron's 160kB and has a much faster front-side bus of 200MHz compared to 66MHz. Intel is, however, expected to move the Celeron up to a 100MHz system bus during first half of next year.
[September 5, 2000, 11:28]
Intel readies expanded chip lineup
News Of course, chips will vary by speed, cache size and bus speed. Both dual-core processors will be based around an 800MHz front-side bus, which helps speed the chip's complex computations. The chips will include a faster front-side bus to 533MHz - up...
[October 13, 2005, 12:40]
Intel's Dothan finally makes its debut
News The Dothan architecture, which pairs higher clock speed with performance enhancements such as extra cache and higher bus speeds, will offer greater performance for a wide selection of laptops. The new system will seek to better reflect how clock...
[May 10, 2004, 15:25]
Rambus patent lawsuit backfires on shareholders
News On Thursday morning a technology update from investment bank SG Cowen also said that the ruling had sided with Infineon, saying Rambus' patents only covered the multiplex bus in SDRAM and DDR. Infineon does not use the multiplex bus.
[March 16, 2001, 11:05]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News One chipset does FireWire, which is a much higher specification for a serial bus, and could easily cope with USB protocols - if only the USB had a model for sending messages from peer to peer. Intel has evolved the Universal Serial Bus, and Apple...
[November 9, 1996, 7:00]
