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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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
Children's Service Nonprofit Chooses Terminal Services To Foster Productivity
White Papers A typical Northwood location is used to house and educate students, as well as host administrative offices. To serve applications to its employees, Northwood used three Citrix servers running the Windows Server 2003 operating system.
[March 23, 2008, 23:00]
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]
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]
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]
Intel's Flagship In Short Supply
News The situation with Dell, which normally offers Intel's fastest chips in both Dimension 8000-series desktops and Dimension XPS systems, is similar to a situation in March, when Dell juggled the processors it offered in the two systems, switching...
[July 30, 2004, 8:45]
Price Cuts Loom As Intel Promotes Faster Pentium
News Currently, top-end Celerons are based on the "Willamette" core, the basic chip core behind the first version of the higher-performing "Northwood" core currently used in the top Pentium 4 processors. Although the two chips will share the same core...
[July 23, 2002, 13:31]
Intel Puts Tualatin Chips On Launch Pad
News Athlon 4, by contrast, is presently 129 square millimetres, and is expected to be reduced to about 80 square millimetres, which means it will still be less expensive to manufacture than the Northwood Pentium 4.
[July 26, 2001, 11:30]
Intel, AMD To Trim Chip Prices
News For its part, Intel plans to come out with a 2.2GHz Pentium 4 in early January, code-named Northwood, that will contain a performance-enhancing secondary cache with 512KB of memory. More price cuts will likely follow the introduction of Northwood...
[October 29, 2001, 8:43]
