AM320: an industrial motherboard on Alviso VIA announces support of dual-core Opterons ATI Radeon Xpress 200M officially announced Yesterday, as expected, AMD officially unveiled dual-core Opteron processors for high-performance servers. Also close is the desktop dual-core Athlon 64 X2, release being scheduled for June. ![]() Opteron 8xx Series are available for 4-way and 8-way servers, while 2xx Series will find its place in 2-way configurations. The latter will be shipping late in May. Note that two cores per chip enable AMD to keep the existing power and motherboard layout requirements, so just a BIOS update will be needed. The dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 is not positioned as a replacement for gaming/enthusiast Athlon 64 FX. As most games can´t use the benefits of dual-core architecture, AMD underlines that X2 advantages will be primarily noticeable in digital video and sound processing as well as in multi-application work. In 1,000-unit quantities Athlon X2 price ranges from $537 to $1,001, Opteron 2xx costs $851 to $1,299, and the most powerful Opteron 800 costs $2,649 per unit.
AM320: an industrial motherboard on Alviso The trend of using notebook solutions in small form-factor desktop machines is growing. This time PFU, a subsidiary of Fujitsu that specialies in embedded and industrial systems, unveiled the AM320 micro-ATX motherboard on Intel 915GM Express (Alviso). ![]() The novelty supports Pentium M CPUs, features ICH6M Southbridge, 1 x PCI Express x16 and 1 x PCI Express x1 slot, 2 x PCI, 2 x Serial ATA interfaces and supports up to 2GB of DDR2-533/400 memory. Also onboard are Gigabit Ethernet (Intel 82541PI), 8 x USB 2.0, 2 x PS/2, 2 x RS-232 and 1 x Serial port. Source: PC Watch
VIA announces support of dual-core Opterons VIA officially informed that its K8 (VIA K8T890) chipsets officially support dual-core AMD Opteron processors. Other features of VIA K8T890 include support of VIA Hyper8, 20 PCI Express channels (1 x PCI Express x16 + 4 x PCI Express x1) and VIA Flex Express Architecture. It´s interesting that unlike Intel, that had to unveil a special chipset for its new dual-core products, AMD seems to offer support for existing solutions instead. Let´s wait and see what other vendors can offer us in their turn.
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M officially announced ATI officially introduced the new Radeon Xpress 200 integrated chipset for Intel processors – Radeon Xpress 200M with a DirectX 9.0 graphics core supporting ATI Videoshader, Fullstream and LCD Enhancement Engine. ![]() Radeon Xpress 200M:
NEC LaVie RX and L Series coming this summer will be one of the first novelties on this chipset.
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