Hot! IDF Spring 2003: the reportage continues Hot! Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003: live from the Silicon Valley More on ABIT GeForce FX 5800 and OTES III coolers Tyan announces new barebones and server boards AMD showcases Mobile Athlon 64 Rambus´s Redwood: more details Pentax releases 5-megapixel Optio 550 Intel to re-equip Fab12 for 300mm production Hermes 651 (MS-6232VA) and Hermes 845GV (MS-6243VA): new barebones from MSI Hot! IDF Spring 2003: the reportage continues More information flows from Alexander Medvedev aka Unclesam sending us live reports from Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003.The first IDF day is over. Hasn’t brought any announcements – it was traditionally dedicated to IT segment evolution strategies. More news to follow very soon! Stay tuned and read the newest!
Hot! Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003: live from the Silicon Valley When most of Europe is about to go to sleep in San Jose, CA, the bright day brings Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003.Our Alexander Medvedev aka Unclesam is already there sending us the first reportage.
This is only a first report. More to follow and we are ready to post!
More on ABIT GeForce FX 5800 and OTES III coolers Today we received more details and images of NVIDIA NV30-based solutions from ABIT.GeForce FX 5800 and GeForce FX 5800 Ultra will be shipped as a Limited Edition in stylish wooden boxes. Shipments are scheduled to the end of February. And the complete specs are to be posted by that time as well. All these cards will feature new ABIT OTES III coolers with claimed to provide very low noise. Click below to get a big pic of GeForce FX 5800:
Tyan announces new barebones and server boards Tyan Computer posted a number of press releases dated to IDF. One of them states that the company plans to focus on PCI Express server platforms and release first systems in 2004. Another presents Tiger i7505 (S2668) ATX mobo on Intel E7505 chipset supporting two Intel Xeons with Hyper Threading, AGP Pro 8x, Gigabit Ethernet LAN (on the photo below).However, it was The Digitimes that provided most information about Tyan novelties. Besides Tiger i7505 (S2668), the company announced new Transport GX14 B2723 and Transport FX27 B4520 barebones as well as Tiger i7501 S2723, Thunder i7505 S2665 and Trinity i7205 S2662 motherboards. Transport GX14 B2723 is a 1U rackmount design on Tiger i7501 S2723 motherboard supporting two Xeons. Transport FX27 B4520 4U systems are designed for 4 Intel Xeon MP processors. They support 24Gb DDR200, have 7 PCI-X HotPlug slots, dual-port LAN and also support IPMI. Source: The DigiTimes
AMD showcases Mobile Athlon 64 It seems a tradition for AMD to demonstrate new products at Intel Developer Forum. Why not: there’s many people and it’s a nice chance to show yourself.This time it is not an exception: in San Jose Convention Center in Fairmont Hotel, AMD showcases its various 64-bit processors.
For the first time AMD presented reference PC design on Mobile Athlon 64 expected about September. The prototype bases on K8T400, has 256Mb PC2100 and ATI M9 graphics.
Besides, it showed off another two systems: on Athlon 3000+ / nForce2 and 3.06GHz Intel Pentium 4 / i845PE. Running a Photoshop script with Intel Hyper-Threading on both resulted in 1500ms for AMD and 1700ms for Intel. But all this has already been thoroughly discussed in our forum. So, I hope we won’t get back to this soon. :-)
Another AMD system – 4-processor Opteron-based system under SuSE Linux. It also features AMD 8131 + 8111 (HyperTransport) chipset bundle, 12Gb PC2100 memory, 80Gb hard drive and Matrox G450 graphics. Source: The Inquirer
Rambus´s Redwood: more details These days Rambus announced additional information about its high-speed Redwood interface with up to 6.4Gbps throughput. If you remember, this theme arised after Sony Corporation, SCEI (Sony Computer Entertainment) and Toshiba licensed Redwood technology early in January along with the Yellowstone interface supposed for the Cell project ("supercomputer-on-a-chip" being developed by IBM Microelectronics to be implemented with 0.10µm and smaller process technology. Sony plans to use it in future PlayStation 3.)According to Rambus, Redwood parallel interface will be realized as a special core for embedding into processors and interface chips. Redwood bus can be used to connect CPU with Northbridge and Northbridge with Southbridge. Besides, Redwood can be used to connect comm processors with requried circuitry. In the consumer electronics segment Redwood can be implemented to connect HDTV encoders and processors in HDTV sets. Redwood is compatible with the current industrial protocols such as LVDS, HyperTransport, Rapid I/O and SDI-4. Redwood´s high data throughput is achieved with the help of previously announced Rambus FlexPhase technology being a way of adjusting bus data flow for each chip pin receives a signal in a time unit. As I guess this is about signal latencies equal for each chip pin. According to the company, this will allow to significantly reduce PCB cost prices and energy consumption as requires only four board layers. According to provisional data, Redwood core is likely to be integrated into both BGA, and CSP bodies.
Deeper into technicals: FlexPhase signalling technology, Redwood underlie, is based on the Differential Rambus Signaling Levels (DRSL) protocol instead of the previous pseudo-differential RSL. It features 200mV amplitude excursion (1.2V stands for logical 0, 1.0V – for logical 1), including ODT (On Die Termination) and duplex signalling familiar from the Yellowstone. DRSL is backward compatible with LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling). So, I guess there are no more blank spots left (or maybe these technicals turned into a large blank for you :). This is the company vision of a PC based on RDRAM; RaSer serial interconnect for RDRAM-chipset and chipset-peripheral controllers; Redwood serial interface for CPU-Northbridge and Northbridge-Southbridge; Yellowstone bus for the most critical locations like in-between GPU and video memory):
Pentax releases 5-megapixel Optio 550 Pentax announced its new Optio 550 digital camera, scheduled for shipping to the late March.Optio 550 features smc PENTAX 5x optical lens (F2.8 4.6, 37.5 – 187.5 mm in 35mm equiv.), 1/1.8" 5.25Mp CCD (5.0 million pixels effective). The camera allows to shoot at 2592x1944, 2048x1536, 1600x1200 and 1024x768 and record 320x240@15fps QuickTime movies. Each shot can be commented for up to 30s. The model supports Exif Print, PIM II (PRINT Image Matching II) and DPOF; USB 1.1 and and has SD/MMC slot. Naturally, the device is operates as "USB mass storage". The minimal focusing range is 2cm in "super macro" mode. Besides optical VF, Optio 550 features a 1.5" LCD display (about 110,000 pixels). The bundle includes Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and Mac OS 8.6+ software. Measured 100x39.5x59 mm, Optio 550 weighs 205g (250g with SD card and battery). Its MSRP is about $800. Source: ASCII24
Intel to re-equip Fab12 for 300mm production One of the first Intel’s announcements at IDF Spring 2003 was the intention to re-equip 200mm Fab 12 in Chandler, AZ into a new 300mm-wafer facility. This will require $2 billion innovations. Everything is to start in H1 2004, production being scheduled for launch for the late 2005. The fab will be producing 65nm chips at once.After re-equipment Fab 12 will become the fifth 300mm fab owned by Intel. Currently 300mm wafers are made at Intel fabs in Hillsboro, OR, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Another 300mm production line will be launched in Oregon late this year. The Irish fab will start working in H1 2004. The company has also announced plans to sell 524 acres of land in Texas. These were bought in 1997, but turned useless for the company.
Hermes 651 (MS-6232VA) and Hermes 845GV (MS-6243VA): new barebones from MSI MSI announced two original barebones for the new Hermes line: Hermes 651 (MS-6232VA) and Hermes 845GV (MS-6243VA). As you can guess, they feature SiS651 and i845GV, respectively.The case has LPX form-factor (84x309x345 mm chassis) and 200W power supply. System board is sized 320x195 mm and designed for Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 with 533MHz FSB and up to 2.8GHz clock speed. It also has 1 PCI slot, 2 DIMM sockets for up to 2Gb DDR200/266/333, 6-ch. audio codec (ALC650), integrated Fast Ethernet controller (Realtek RTL8101L/BL or Intel 82562ET for MS-6243VA). Speaking of Hermes 651 (MS-6232VA), we mean SiS651 + SiS962L + SiS301B bundle. In case of Hermes 845GV (MS-6243VA) – i845GV + ICH4. Cases feature 4 USB 2.0 ports, audio in/out (including SPDIF), IEEE 1394, TV-outs.
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