23rd May 2006 Archive

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AMD Socket AM2, Athlon 64 FX-62

Review AMD finally moves to DDR 2, but was the wait worthwhile?

Today, AMD is launching two major new products: its Socket AM2 interconnect and a faster Athlon 64 FX to go with it. A little bit later on today we'll see Nvidia's new nForce 500 series of chipsets, but let's start with AMD, as this is really its day and not Nvidia's - no matter how important a partner it is. Besides, Nvidia's …

Bits 'n' Chips 23 May 2006, 04:02
Seagate to lay off 6,000 workers

Headcount to be cut as company absorbs Maxtor

Seagate is now the proud owner of Maxtor, but it doesn't expect to have brought the two hard disk drive operations together until next year. In the meantime, it will rid itself of half of Maxtor's worldwide workforce of 12,000 employees. The remainder will largely be made up of Maxtor's Asia-Pacific manufacturing workers, …

Storage 23 May 2006, 06:16
AMD extends Athlon 64 CPU lines

Firm intros 4000+, 5000+, FX-62

AMD has launched its Socket AM2 desktop processors, among them the forecast Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and the X2 4000+ clocked at 2.6GHz and 2.0GHz, respectively, and priced at $696 and $328. It also introduced the $1,031, 2.8GHz Athlon 64 FX-62, and the $343, 2.4GHz Athlon 64 400+. The Socket AM2 versions of other single- and dual- …

Bits 'n' Chips 23 May 2006, 06:50
Intel ships dual-core Xeon DP 5000 series

Updated 'Dempsey' paves the way for 'Woodcrest'

Intel has begun shipping 'Dempsey', its Xeon DP 5000 series of dual-core server processors equipped with 4MB of cache and sporting Intel's new LGA-771 interconnect. The processors were first shown in public almost a year ago and come a month before the next-generation architecture Xeon - aka 'Woodcrest' - is due to launch. …

Bits 'n' Chips 23 May 2006, 09:12
Samsung to sell PCs with Flash drives next month

HDD-less

Samsung will early next month ship the first notebook PC and the first ultra-mobile PC fitted with 32GB of solid-state NAND Flash storage instead of a regular hard disk drive, the company announced today. The two machines - respectively, a version of Samsung's Q30 12.1in notebook and its Q1 UMPC - are both fitted with the …

PCs 23 May 2006, 09:38
VIA touts own chipsets' Socket AM2 suitability

Boards AMD's latest bandwagon

VIA pipped Nvidia to the post today by announcing the first chipsets to support AMD's Socket AM2 platform, though most motherboards launched today appear to be based on the as-yet-unannounced - officially anyway - Nvidia nForce 500 series. VIA's offerings that are ready to support Socket AM2 processors include the K8T900 and …

Bits 'n' Chips 23 May 2006, 10:02
Sony 'unlikely' to offer 20GB PS3 in UK

HDMI-equipped 60GB model only?

British buyers may only be offered the 60GB version of Sony's PlayStation 3, a senior company official has suggested. If so, the comments from the head of Sony Computer Entertainment's UK operation, Ray Maguire, appear to confirm speculation that the 20GB PS3 will not be released here officially. In an interview with UK games …

Consoles 23 May 2006, 10:46
Nvidia delays GeForce 7950 GX2 debut?

Quad SLI part's launch put back a week for Computex

Nvidia is not unveiling its anticipated GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics chip until early June and the start of the Computex trade show in Taipei, an online report citing communications made by the GPU company to its distributors has claimed. According to a DailyTech report, Nvidia's note to channel partners states the 7950 GX2 will …

Bits 'n' Chips 23 May 2006, 11:06
ATI unveils SB600 South Bridge

Ethernet? What's Ethernet?

ATI has announced its anticipated South Bridge chip, the SB600, the chipset component designed to limit the company's dependence on ULi, the chip maker now owned by ATI's arch-rival, Nvidia. The SB600 hooks up to ATI's Xpress 3200, 1600 and 1100 North Bridge chips. It can support up to four 1.5Gbps or 3Gbps Serial ATA drives …

Bits 'n' Chips 23 May 2006, 13:57
Nvidia nForce 500 Socket AM2 chipset series

Preview A new AMD Socket, a new Nvidia chipset...

Earlier today, AMD launched a range of new processors based on its Socket AM2 processor interconnect. Nvidia has launched a range of new chipsets to go with AMD's Socket AM2 CPUs and it's an impressive line-up. So far there has been no news about any new chipsets from ATI, although the RD580 chipset is already prepared for the …

Bits 'n' Chips 23 May 2006, 14:02
ATI provides pointer to Intel's 'Allendale'

Conroe/Merom with half the cache, anyone?

ATI has confirmed that Intel is preparing a processor codenamed 'Allendale' in the 'Conroe' timeframe, though its reference, tucked into a description of its SB600 South Bridge, to the new chip provides no clue as to the part's features. Allendale is believed to be a version of Conroe half that chip's usual 4MB of L2 cache. …

Bits 'n' Chips 23 May 2006, 14:32