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Saturday, 12-June-2004 02:26:05 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Some interesting Press-Releases from the last week or so:
AMD announced that it will introduce a new brand of PC processors to be named AMD Sempron™. The AMD Sempron processor family is expected to redefine everyday computing for today’s value-conscious buyers of desktop and notebook PCs. The general concensus seems to be that these will be replacing the Duron line and competing with Intel's Celerons. More info in this press-release.
Western Digital announced: The high performance capabilities of Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives were validated recently, when WD Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA drives from Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) outperformed 10,000 and 15,000 RPM SCSI drives from two competitors in separate independent, head-to-head comparison tests conducted by and published in the June issue of Maximum PC magazine and the upcoming July issue of Custom PC magazine (UK). I've reproduced the entire press-release in this thread in our Storage & Backup Forum.
VIA Technologies announced that the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset, which has been optimized for the new AMD Athlon™ 64 processors, features official support for the 1GHz/16-bit HyperTransport™ technology bus. By increasing the bi-directional HyperTransport technology link from 800MHz, as featured on previous VIA K8 Series chipsets, to 1GHz, the total theoretical bandwidth between the system’s processor and the VIA K8T800 Pro is increased to an impressive 8.0GB/s. The additional bandwidth brings a performance boost to CPU and memory-intensive business applications, as well as today’s most demanding 3D and digital media applications. Performance of systems featuring the new AMD Athlon processors 3500+ and 3800+ is further enhanced by support for dual channel unbuffered DDR400 SDRAM. More info in this press release.
TwinMOS announced the release of DDR2 series memory modules. TwinMOS has a good R&D team with latest technologies and a close cooperation with Intel, and proudly all series of DDR2 memory modules just passed Intel validation. TwinMOS REG DIMM is the 1st memory module passed by Intel lab testing, which makes TwinMOS the first one among Taiwanese suppliers since its approval of DDR2 unbuffered DIMM and registered DIMM by Intel. More info in a 1MB DOC file here.
Gigabyte announced the release of graphics accelerators powered by the world's first native 16-lane PCI Express VPUs from ATI, the GV-RX80 series, GV-RX60 series and GV-RX30 Series which are based on ATI's newly introduced RADEON™ X800, RADEON™ X600 and RADEON™ X300 visual processing units (VPUs). ... PCI Express is the next-generation I/O interconnect standard designed to fulfill the bandwidth requirement of upcoming platforms. With up to 4GB/s of one-directional and 8GB/s of concurrent bandwidth, PCI Express has the benefits of increased bandwidth and scalability to open up a whole new world to 3D applications. More info in this 2.8MB DOC file.
Gigabyte also announced its hefty high-performance motherboard, the GA-K8NSNXP-939, in conjunction with the launch of AMD socket 939 Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX processors. Supporting the new Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX processor with the acclaimed Dual Channel DDR400 memory architecture and 1 GHz HyperTransport interface, the GA-K8NSNXP-939 satiates the user's need for speed and more speed. More info in this 509KB DOC file.
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