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Northwood boss sees 3,000 PCs pcm
News The Coleshill, Warks.based firm is just about to start shipping PCs under the Northwood banner and managing director Steve Bennett believes the company is in a position to quickly achieve significant volumes.
[May 8, 1997, 16:51]
Northwood defies closure rumours with added range
News Northwood Laboratories has dismissed industry claims that it is struggling to achieve sufficient sales by launching a leading edge range of PCs and saying it is still on target for sales of 3,000 PCs a month, by the end of the year.
[July 9, 1997, 14:41]
Northwood relies on NC push
News Rumours still persist that Northwood is finding the going heavy with PC sales, and a source has suggested that despite claims to the contrary, the company is looking towards possible areas of differentiation.
[September 5, 1997, 17:05]
Five years ago: Northwood boss sees 3,000 PCs pcm
News The Coleshill, Warks.based firm is just about to start shipping PCs under the Northwood banner and managing director Steve Bennett believes the company is in a position to quickly achieve significant volumes.
[May 6, 2002, 7:01]
Intel Northwood fails to take the lead
News Intel has finally released its long-awaited Northwood version of the Pentium 4 processor, adding a number of performance improvements, but the initial round of benchmarks shows that the new Pentium's performance still lags behind the less...
[January 7, 2002, 13:37]
Northwood adds Micronics board, Ultra-ATA
News Northwood can be contacted by telephone on 01675-467753. The new-look systems use the Micronics Twister AT motherboard based on the TX chipset and Quantum Fireball ST Ultra-ATA hard drives. All models feature programmable keyboards and Iomega Zip...
[July 21, 1997, 10:18]
Intel shrinks Pentium 4 Northwood
News The new Intel chip is based on the "Northwood" core, with a fine-tuned version of the .13-micron manufacturing process introduced earlier this year. Intel has launched a 2.4GHz version of its Pentium 4 processor with a revamped manufacturing...
[April 2, 2002, 14:24]
Software Warehouse's Northwood PCs out May 1
News Northwood can be contacted by telephone on 01675-468333. Already a dominant force in mail-order software, the Coleshill, Warks.based company will start with two ranges, the "value" line Lynx and multimedia Aurora.
[March 10, 1997, 11:55]
Intel Prescott: the benchmarks review
Reviews Intel’s new ‘Prescott’ Pentium 4 has double the L1 and L2 cache of its ‘Northwood’ predecessor. A 3.4GHz Pentium 4 with the older Northwood core will also available -- although, again, it’s not currently available for test.
[February 2, 2004, 10:05]
Software Warehouse trying again in PCs
News At its May launch, chairman of the mail-order software kingpin Steve Bennett said he was confident his new Northwood PC company would achieve 2,000-3,000 sales per month by the end of the year. Software Warehouse is keeping on the Northwood brand...
[November 5, 1997, 12:11]
Prescott flunks benchmark tests
News Intel's new Prescott-based Pentium 4 has debuted with performance measurements mostly slightly below that of its predecessor, Northwood, and below its main competition, AMD's Athlon64, according to ZDNet benchmark tests published on Monday.
[February 2, 2004, 16:20]
Intel prepping new mobile chip
News Intel sources say the chip maker is working to replace its top-of-the-line notebook processor, the mobile Pentium III, with a new chip, code-named Northwood, in 2001. Northwood, based on the same next-generation 32-bit architecture as Intel's...
[February 7, 2000, 8:05]
Pentium 4 delay gives AMD top spot
News A spokesman for Intel declined to comment specifically on Northwood's release date but said the company is producing the chips. Northwood," a 2.2GHz Pentium 4 based on the 130-nanometer (0.13-micron) manufacturing process, will come out...
[October 12, 2001, 16:52]
New Pentium 4s to alter competitive map
News At the same time, performance will improve because Northwood chips will offer -- along with the higher clock speeds -- a larger secondary cache, a reservoir of memory located on the same piece of silicon as the processor for rapid data access.
[January 3, 2002, 14:54]
Intel's 'Prescott' chips go live
News This time, Pentium 4 Prescott and Northwood desktop chips will coexist at clock speeds ranging from 2.8GHz to 3.4GHz. Intel's two new Northwood Pentium 4s will run at 3.4GHz. Intel will add two new speed versions of its current Pentium 4, dubbed...
[February 2, 2004, 7:25]
Pentium 4 v Athlon XP review
Reviews Northwood Northwood Northwood Intel has recently launched three new processors that feature a 533MHz frontside bus (FSB), compared to the previous generation’s 400MHz FSB. The new flagship CPU is clocked at 2,533MHz, or 2.53GHz, and there are also...
[May 16, 2002, 16:45]
Dell Dimension 4400 review
Reviews Dell supplied us with a 2.2GHz Northwood Pentium 4 system fitted with 256MB of DDR SDRAM, with Windows XP Professional installed. The Dimension 4400's Business Winstone 2001 score of 57.3 is among the highest we've recorded -- a 2.2GHz Northwood...
[January 6, 2002, 23:00]
Hi-Grade Ultinote M6400 review
Reviews Given that Intel's fastest mobile chip is currently the 1.2GHz Mobile Pentium III Processor-M (like the Northwood Pentium 4, a 0.13-micron part with 512KB of Level 2 cache), we expected pretty good speed from the 1.8GHz chip in the Ultinote M6400.
[February 19, 2002, 23:00]
Inside Intel's Prescott review
Reviews Instead, the mixture of new ideas in Prescott has promise for the future: the immediate role of the chip is as a straight replacement for the last generation Pentium 4s based on the Northwood core design.
[February 2, 2004, 7:40]
Dell drops another Intel P4
News Neither Dell nor HP is offering that chip, the companies report, forcing them to offer the 3.4GHz Northwood Pentium 4 instead. But Northwood chips cost the same from Intel, perform similarly at the same clock speed and can fit into the same...
[April 13, 2004, 14:35]
