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"AMD's 64 bit Opteron - How to Slow Down Game Performance !!
Note that this is from an AMD fanboy site."
The link doesn't work....... anymore. My guess is, AMDZone..... Like Mike Magee, and "others", are not interested in seeing/hearing/speaking, anything negative about AMD. apparently they're interested, only when it applies to intel.
In contrast, the development of EUV technology and Intel's pioneering efforts represents a strategic advantage that is far more relevant in making long-term investment decisions.
Exactly. It's the old "forest for the trees" thing..... eh?
"Will You Please Stop Sucking?"
Ed Stroligo - 7/31/04
http://www.overclockers.com/tips00632/
For all intents and purposes, that's what an email sent by Intel's CEO Craig Barrett to Intel employees said.
I wonder if he sent a copy to himself. He should have (along with the rest of his executive officers)........
Intel unveils EUV micro-exposure tool
http://tinyurl.com/6crfk
HILLSBORO, Ore. — Intel Corp. said Monday (Aug. 2) it has installed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) micro-exposure tool from Exitech Ltd. at its development fab here.
Using the 13.5-nm EUV light, the tool is capable of exposing 30-nm isolated lines, and Intel will use it to prove out the EUV photoresists and masks.
Prescotts with x86-64 Enabled
http://www.overclockers.com/tips00633/
"Somewhere, Out There"
Ed Stroligo - 8/2/04
In the last couple months, there's been reports that Prescott with x86-64 enabled were supposed to show up around now.
Well, at least in some of the Intel paperwork, they have.
If you look at this Product Change Notification, you'll find out the sspecs for both the (allegedly current) D0 stepping chips, along with the future E0 stepping chips. They're under the category, "Desktop Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor – LGA775 with EM64T".
while IBM (IBM: news, chart, profile) added six new devices to its eServer line running on the Xeon.
And that's what, five more Xeon 64 based systems than
it offers Opteron based systems? I guess IBM knows which
side its bread is buttered.
Yeah, it's funny how it seems IBM talks out of one side of their face (rah rah opteron), but they do otherwise. I guess that old saying is true, actions speak louder then words
Does anyone REALLY know if this memo went out to all Intel employees? I SINCERELY have doubts about that. Any thoughts on it?
At IBM we got memos yearly on how our division sucked or how our product wasn't progressing quickly - I dunno this seems quite overblown to me, I'm sure he's reamed the execs but the rank and file? I doubt it.
I don't believe that any rank and file received the memo personally. Most likely, what happened, is Craig outlined the points of the memo, at July's Monthly Business update meeting, during the discussion about Q2 results, and and Q3 plans.
PC makers introduce servers based on new Intel chip
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040802/tech_dell_1.html
NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Dell and IBM plan on Monday to introduce servers with Intel's new 64-bit microprocessor, which allows vast amounts of computer memory.
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - News) said it will begin on Monday rolling out eight new servers based on the Intel Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) new Xeon processor with 64-bit technology. A 64-bit computer can accommodate nearly unlimited amounts of memory and can churn through doubly large chunks of data.
Server makers get behind Intel's Xeon
http://tinyurl.com/5snbd
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Dell and IBM on Monday threw their weight behind Intel's new Xeon processor, as each unveiled a new line of servers in what is expected to be one of the biggest shifts in server technology in more than a decad
Server makers get behind Intel's Xeon chip
Dell (DELL: news, chart, profile) took the wraps off of its PowerEdge 1800, 1850, 2800 and 2850 servers, while IBM (IBM: news, chart, profile) added six new devices to its eServer line running on the Xeon. The chip, which Intel (INTC: news, chart, profile) introduced in June, is the first from the company that incorporates 64-bit processing extensions, allowing data to be processed in both 32-bit and 64 bit-size pieces.
Nope. I have a friend at a tier2 (one that's done a lot of Itanium HPC business, actually). There may be links out there, try google.
upc
I see. You "heard it" from somebody..... Thanks.
You would be wrong, then. In fact, for any tier 2/3 player, the only way to get I/I2 parts has been as part of an Intel built-and-tested system bundle.
upc
Very interesting info. I thought that anybody can buy an Itanium Chip if they want one. Since my belief is "wrong", do you have a link to verify your statement? That would certainly enlighten me.
http://www.streetprices.com/Electronics/Computer_Hardware_PC/Processors/Itanium/
Right, you send it back. And then what happens? Does Intel sell its customers USED I2 systems? Or are those USED I2 systems then junk?
upc
I don't believe that intel makes any I2 systems. AFAIK, the vendors make the systems. My guess is that the vendors refurbish the systems and resell them as such. That's a standard industry procedure on equipment used for trial periods. I've even seen the original "trial company" then buy equipment back at the reduced refurbished price. Do you have any info to the contrary? Either way, as Paul pointed out, intel gets paid, and that's what matters.
during a free trial period
Regardless of what the specific item is, AFAIK, "Free trial period", historically means, that after the trial period, either you pay for it, or send it back.
Intel did give away a few thousand Merced development
systems around 2001 to ISVs to "seed the market".
***Thanks, I didn't know that. I'm aware that the Intel 64 Fund provided seed money to develop "applications for Merced". I guess they might have used the money to actually buy the machines, but I'm not aware that the machines themselves were given away. I guess it's possible they could have been. This was what I found, Do you have a link that says the machines were given away?
http://www.varbusiness.com/sections/technology/tech.jhtml?articleId=18804181
And if Intel has anything to say about it, the introduction of the first member of the family will be accompanied by some of those new software solutions. Intel and HP have disclosed details of the architecture and the instruction set. And Intel has formed a $250 million fund, The Intel 64 Fund, that will provide seed money to ISVs for applications for the new chips.
http://www.x86.org/news/1999/news051099.htm
Intel Corp. here today announced the creation of a $250 million equity investment fund to help companies develop new Internet and enterprise applications for the company's upcoming IA-64 architecture. The IA-64 architecture slated to hit the market in the middle of 2000 with the launch of Intel's first 64-bit processor, code-named "Merced."
Windsock, free is when Intel gives away Itanium systems to seed the market with no hope of ever seeing payment for them. Bundled is when you sell software and hardware together, in Sun's case by a subscription model.
Think you can understand the difference? In one case money changes hands, in the other case it does not.
Can you point me to links that verify this statement? I am aware of a try before you buy program intel initiated for Itanium in December 2003, in which after the trial period if the company doesn't buy, they send the system back, but I am not aware of one where they were given away for free. I've heard this claim that intel "gave away" itanium systems before on this thread, and at the time, I also asked the person for verification, and the person was unable to verify their statement, except for "I know it's true". Do you have a link to verify your statement? Here's mine.
http://www.hp-interex.org/site/cms/newsarticleview.asp?article=2057
Windows XP Service Pack Release Delayed
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20040730/bs_nf/26105
Microsoft will delay the release of its Windows XP (news - web sites) Service Pack 2 software by a few weeks. The company also will hold up the release of its 64-bit based applications for desktops and servers until the first half of next year......
The idea of computing in a 64-bit environment has helped to increase the excitement around Advanced Micro Devices' strategy to improve computing performance. But doubters included the dominant chipmaker Intel, which questioned whether users would feel an improvement by moving from 32-bit to a 64-bit realm.
Even so, Microsoft signed on with AMD (NYSE: AMD - news) last year to develop an OS that would unleash the full capabilities of the AMD Athlon 64. But the hoopla, having receded, reveals that there are scant applications that require 64-bit capabilities. Intel may be right -- it may be too early to push the market toward the technology.......
Chipping Away at the Negativity Around Semis
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/tech/kcswanson/10175341.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite...
By K.C. Swanson
TheStreet.com Staff Reporter
7/30/2004 6:54 AM EDT
In a stock market version of water torture, chip stocks have suffered a painful, drawn-out selloff over the past six months. The latest earnings season only accelerated the declines, with analysts seizing on reports of inventory buildups while they proclaim the semiconductor industry has hit a cyclical peak.
Plenty of tech poobahs say that's reason to exit the sector with due speed, with a minority arguing that chip sales can keep growing in line with the broader economy.
While the debate winds on, the uncomfortable reality is that no one sees a fundamental catalyst to end the selling until early August -- although a technically driven oversold bounce is possible, even overdue.........
That's circumstantial evidence. Do you know what that is?
upc
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=circumstantial%20evidence
circumstantial evidence
n.
* Evidence not bearing directly on the fact in dispute but on various attendant circumstances from which the judge or jury might infer the occurrence of the fact in dispute.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=facts
fact ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fkt)
n.
* Knowledge or information based on real occurrences: an account based on fact; a blur of fact and fancy.
* Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed
* A real occurrence; an event.
New Graph, New Delay.
http://www.overclockers.com/tips00628/
Another roadmap graph seems to indicate that fast 90nm Hammers won't become available until Q2 2005.
"So it's municipal bribery by local governments eager for jobs in desperate economic times..."
It probably was only a minor consideration for AMD when they located Fab30 and Fab36 in Dresden...
Depending on how you define 'minor', of course.
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/030812/amd10-q.html
In addition to support from AMD, the consortium of banks referred to above made available up to $877 million in loans to AMD Saxony to help fund Fab 30 project costs. The loans have been fully drawn and a portion has been repaid. AMD Saxony had $627 million of such loans outstanding as of June 29, 2003, which are included in our consolidated balance sheets.
Finally, pursuant to a Subsidy Agreement, as amended in August 2002, the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Saxony are supporting the Fab 30 project, in accordance with the Dresden Loan Agreements, in the form of: guarantees equal to 65 percent of AMD Saxony's outstanding bank debt, or $408 million; capital investment grants and allowances totaling $476 million; and interest subsidies totaling $175 million.
(What is the correct plural of die in this context? Eveyone seems to disagree. I find that 'dies' seems to work more smoothly than 'dice'.)
Everyone that I know in Chip Manufacturing, uses "die" interchangeably as the singular and plural. People in "other areas" of the semiconductor business disagree, and use "dice", so there appears to be no "correct".
I wondering but I don't know:
This may be the cause of the inventory build. Rather than discontinue the old line they kept it running until the new line came up.
Apple just made an announcement that they will have NO product in one of their lines for the next two months because they discontinued the old line before the new line was ready. That is much worse than Intel's situation.
***Historically, when intel moves microprocessors to a new process, they use the previous one for chipsets, and/or flash. in this case the "old" (cough), 130nm process, would most likely be converted over to chipsets, since I think I read somewhere that intel was ramping the Colorodo facility on Flash. No doubt, the 130nm is not only fully depreciated, but probably in major cost reduction project mode by now. My guess is, that when intel saw the initial stepping yields and poor heat performance on Prescott, they extended the manufacture of Northwood, and delayed the conversion of 130nm to chipsets, in order to fill the orders of the customers, by using boutique processing, to squeeze the 130nm Process for higher bin splits, probably at the cost of yield.
One would think that an old fully depreciated line should be more profitable than a new process. The only good "excuse" is that there is an alternative use for the line.
I don't know enough to know whether this is true, but what would your guess be?
***Now subsequent steppings of Prescott are beginning to find acceptance in the marketplace. With improved yields and bin splits on the 90nm lines, I believe that has caused a Northwood/Prescott inventory build up, forcing intel to re-evaluate the 130nm Northwood vs. 90nm Prescott manufacturing strategy in favor of 90nm.
I believe that intel has already started some chipset manufacturing on 130nm. What I would do, and what it appears to me that intel has done, is shut off Northwood Production on 130nm immediately, which intel has already announced and ramp up the chipset manufacturing on 130nm. This would probably reduce wafer starts initially in the 130nm 8 inch Fabs, which should help reduce inventory in Q3, until the additional capacity can be switched over to chipsets. #1 candidate..... Grantsdale.
Anyway, that's what I think
Intel Discontinues 130nm Desktop, Mobile Microprocessors
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040723100831.html
World’s Largest Chipmaker Continue the Switch to 90nm Products
Intel Corporation said Friday it would discontinue a bunch of desktop and mobile microprocessors made using 130nm process technology. The move’s motives are unclear, but it believed that the company may suspend production the older microprocessors in favour of the new chips made using 90nm fabrication process.
Intel opens Russian development center, says report
http://tinyurl.com/4rq7w
Silicon Strategies
July 23, 2004 (8:00 AM EDT)
LONDON -- Intel Corp. has opened research and development center in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to a report in the St Petersburg Times and confirming an earlier report that appeared in May 2004.
Intel Declares Regular Cash Dividend
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040721/215619_1.html
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2004--The Intel Corporation board of directors has declared a $0.04 per share quarterly dividend on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable on Sept. 1, 2004 to stockholders of record on Aug. 7, 2004.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
The WIRED Magazine Top 40
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/wired40.html
The Wired 40
1. Google
2. Amazon.com
3. Apple Computer
4. Genentech
5. eBay
6. Samsung Electronics
7. Yahoo!
8. Electronic Arts
9. Pixar
10. Cisco Systems
11. Infosys Technologies
12. Dell Computer
13. IBM
14. SAP
15. Nokia
16. Netflix
17. Monsanto
18. Toyota Motor
19. Vodafone Group
20. Flextronics
21. InterActiveCorp
22. Nvidia
23. WPP Group
24. Intel
25. EMC
26. FedEx
27. Microsoft
28. Pfizer
29. Costco Wholesale
30. Comcast
31. Taiwan Semiconductor
32. Ameritrade
33. Gen-Probe
34. Ryanair
35. L-3
36. Citigroup
37. Level 3
38. Inditex
39. JDS Uniphase
40. BP
12. Dell Computer
THE GREAT COMMODITIZER
Last year: 15
Dell's formula of assembling on demand and selling directly to the customer turned PCs into commodities. It also made Dell the desktop market leader. The company has since squeezed prices for printers, storage, even plasma TVs. If computers are ever traded in the commodities pit, a statue of Michael Dell should be erected there in his honor.
Done: Following Gateway into the consumer electronics market, Dell now peddles TVs and MP3 players.
To do: A few overpriced markets could use the Dell touch: Cable TV? Wireless access?
24. Intel
MACRO PROCESSOR
Last year: 14
Intel makes 85 percent of PC microprocessors, but that won't keep it on top in a post-PC world. So the firm is developing silicon for servers, handhelds, flat-panel TVs, and medical gear, and its $4.8 billion R&D budget is funding research in fiber optics, nanotech, and smart dust - especially after its 64-bit Itanium chip was met with a yawn from the market.
Done: Five million PCs were shipped with Intel's Centrino technology in 2003, bringing Wi-Fi to the masses.
To do: The costly fiasco of the Itanium chip serves as a reminder that Intel must satisfy market needs as it diversifies.
What if Ngyen is incorrect, either way? I mean I knew he was incorrect about Dell using opteron. I dunno where he gets his information from but some of it is suspect. Remember that guy several years ago who said Dell was going to use AMD processors? Naw I can't remember his name either :)
Sure, anybody can be wrong. The thing is, I'm not so sure that information on quantity of sales of an introduced product, is as difficult to get your hands on, as is information on in what capacity, or if, Dell is going to use AMD. The first can most likely be reasonably calculated and extrapolated from sales data, the second would be a closely guarded secret.
In any case, quarterly announcements are coming soon, and I find it hard to believe that Jerry's "I Can Shoot My Big Mouth Off Too" student Hector, will keep his mouth shut about specific Opteron quantities if they sold a bunch of them. No use passing up an opportunity to publicly rub intel's nose in it, eh? Since that seems to be a long standing, and apparently continuing, AMD Corporate Officer goal.
On the other hand, if AMD again uses vague words like AMD has used recently about Opteron quantities, to the effect; "Quantities are meeting our expectations", then IMO that's a red flag. We'll see.
Sure, anybody can be wrong. The thing is, I'm not so sure that information on quantity of sales of an introduced product, is as difficult to get your hands on as is information on whether or not Dell is going to use AMD.
Quarterly announcements are coming soon, and I find it hard to believe that Jerry's "I can Shoot My Mouth Off Too" student Hector, will keep his mouth shut about specific quantities if they sold a bunch of them. No use passing up an opportunity to rub intel's nose in it, eh? On the other hand, if AMD again uses vague words like AMD has used recently about Opteron quantities, to the effect; "Quantities are meeting our expectations", then it's a red flag. We'll see.
Interesting SI Thread.....
Based on this report.....
Analyst Tai Nguyen of Susquehanna Financial Group estimated that AMD shipped about 100,000 Opteron processors in the second quarter, up 67 percent from 60,000 in the first quarter.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&st...
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=20292787
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=20292855
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=20292937
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=20293276
Of course, there were also the cheap shots, from the usual expected sources..... but I think I'll leave those links out. What I found interesting, was I was hoping for some sort of response to Elmer's "let the numbers speak for themselves" post, since I was interested in seeing the counter argument to Elmer's evaluation of the data.
What's interesting to me was, Elmer didn't get a counter argument.
Edit: Wait, I take that back, Rupert, agress with Dan, and like Dan, attacks Elmer's math as the basis of his argument (which elmer already corrected). It still looks to me though, like his data points to a conclusion that AMD has way more capacity then they sold, and which still doesn't seem to dispute elmer's main point of assuming good yields, why apparently only 2 days production sold in Q2?
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=20294501
Is Intel's flash business continuing to mend? There's a statement in the following AMD-centric article that was particularly interesting:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2004/tc20040712_4684_tc119.htm
Intel isn't completely missing out. After losing some flash market share to AMD last year when it hiked prices, Intel is gaining some back. Former AMD customers, such as manufacturers DBTel, Inventec, and Quanta, are returning to Intel.
Will we see the effects of this in the Q2 earnings report?
Depends on when (if?) they came back. Chip OEM sales contracts are usually negotiated with a delivery date for sometime in the future. Since intel doesn't record an OEM sale until the chips are delivered, it would depend on whether the delivery date could be counted as Q2, or Q3. My guess, IMO, is that since intel had depressed chip sales prior to Q2 when they stupidly raised prices, there probably was either sufficient flash inventory, or sufficient cpacity available to give Q2 delivery dates. I think there's a good chance this will lead to an upside Q2 surprise for all the "Intel doom and gloom" analyists, not to mention "others".
Drip, drip, drip. Another day, another announcement
of new high end server apps for IPF.
Tsk... Tsk... Tsk... By most every AMDroids opinion, IPF is dead, buried, killed, deceased, obliterated, etc etc etc.... Haven't you been paying attention to the Droids?
Me Neither.......
I have! It's all right here: http://www.retroactivetrader.com
Cha-ching!
No No No, it's here:
http://fnf.makes.stuff.up.com
Semi,
re: Nacona should also be in mass distribution when Win64 is ready for production release, right on time.
That was the plan all along, IMO.
I know that, you know that...... I just couldn't resist pointing it out to the "You Know Who's"
I think the habit of having only a couple of TDP bins
that all speed grades fall into will be the way of the
future. It is possible that yield lossage from defects
is now less important than yield loss from parametrics
being out of wack. That's why we no longer see a nice
curve fitting power and clock rate in data sheets.
Could be. Maybe defect reduction is "less important", as a result of "lower impact". In my experience, when a new process comes up to High Volume Manufacturing, the focus is all on "Ramp It", "Get It Stable", "Increase The Throughput", and screw the costs..... Then it evolves into, "Get The Costs Down". Defect Reduction use to be one of the biggest knobs I could turn in reducing costs, but in the last few process technologies, I'm seeing less, and less return from those techniques. I don't have data to support that, it's just my feel for things, and I'm not sure why defect reduction doesn't seem to have as big an impact as it use to. Maybe just things getting cleaner overall.....? Interesting......
64-Bit Battle : Intel’s Xeon 3.4 GHz vs. AMD’s Opteron 250
http://tinyurl.com/3bsun
The Final Word
The last time we compared the Xeon and Opteron processor families, it was a no-brainer that the Opteron was the way to go. It was less expensive, performed better, ran cooler, and had the ability to run 64-bit code in the future. Today the picture is much different though, as Intel’s massive upgrades to the Xeon platforms will not go un-noticed by consumers or corporations. The Xeon is certainly revitalized, and AMD has reason to be concerned.
The “Nocona” based Xeon processor is an impressive chip, any way you slice it. The chip’s larger 1MB of L2 cache, higher clock speeds, and 64-bit processing are three very solid architectural improvements. Combine these features with Intel’s new E7525 chipset along with the PCI Express connectivity and DDR2 memory interface, and you can that this new Xeon family has the look and feel of a true next generation platform. Sure, PCI Express may not do any real good until a year from now, and DDR2 memory in its current form is no better (and appears to actually be worse) than current DDR memory. These are temporary setbacks though, as the industry’s move to PCI Express is picking up speed and faster DDR2 memory modules are already hitting store shelves.
What may be even more impressive is that with so much going against it, AMD’s fastest Opteron 250 processors still not only manage to fend off the Xeon, but in some benchmarks, still can crush the latest and greatest from Intel with ease. While Intel may be the choice for content creation types, the Opteron still wallops the Xeon in terms of memory bandwidth/latency, number crunching, webserver performance, and media encoding. In all honestly, the Opteron system felt much smoother during our testing in comparison to the new Xeons, which we would tend to attribute to the Opteron’s on-die memory controller feature. If pure performance was your main goal of buying a new dual processor system, the Opteron 250 would still be our processor choice.
On the other hand, high-end dual Opteron platforms are not picking up new platform technologies as quickly as we would like them to, something which may begin hurting AMD within the next three months, especially when PCI Express graphics cards really start picking up steam and begin to outperform their AGP equivalents. The AMD-8000 series chipset has served us well, but it’s time for something new. High-end workstation users are always concerned about platform longevity, in this arena, Intel has the upper hand.
As for 64-bit performance, we can’t really tell anything at this time. While we were able to load our latest build of Windows XP 64-bit Edition on both systems and were able to run some quick 64-bit SiSoft Sandra benchmarks, these items combined are not enough to get a good picture of the 64-bit performance of these chips. We’re planning on re-visiting these processors in a future lab report with 64-bit Windows XP, Server 2003, and Linux, for a deeper look at performance and compatibility between these two processors. Stay tuned.
--- Sheds some light on the comparison everyone seems to have been waiting for, despite the lack of 64 bit apps. Looks to me like AMDroids nightmare of intel introducing EM64T that performs comparable to Opteron has come true. Seems to also put to rest their "hope" of non-issue windows compatability, since only the desperate would still be holding onto that one. Nacona should also be in mass distribution when Win64 is ready for production release, right on time.
Prescott - Not fixed enough
http://www.overclockers.com/tips00613/
He's right, the rules of shrink vs power reduction no longer apply. I'm still pleased that intel was able to reduce the power levels with a stepping change, regardless if it didn't meet historical trends.
UPDATE - U.S., China resolve semiconductor trade dispute
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040708/trade_usa_china_1.html
WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - The United States and China have resolved a dispute over Chinese market access for U.S. semiconductors, which led the United States to lodge the first World Trade Organization complaint against Beijing, the U.S. government said on Thursday.
A statement from the U.S. Trade Representative said the deal "will ensure full market access ... for U.S. integrated circuits in China," which is a market worth more than $2 billion to the U.S. industry.
DDR2 Roundup: Reaching for 667 and Beyond
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2112&p=1
The most amazing test results came from all the new DDR2 memories that we tested. Amazing, in that even the cheapest value DDR2 ran with complete stability at DDR2 667, which is the next major speed in the DDR2 highway. In addition, every one of the eight memories that we tested in this roundup ran with complete stability at the highest FSB which we could support on any current 925X motherboard - DDR2 686. Most of the tested DDR2 even accomplished this overclocking feat with much better than standard 4-4-4-10 timings and a modest voltage increase to 1.9V from the default 1.8V.
After this roundup, the message about DDR2 is very clear. As it exists today, DDR2 is much better than we expected it to be. Intel could easily move to DDR2 667 timings tomorrow and there would be a whole range of memories available to support that speed.
XP 64-bit beta is AMD only
[PC Pro] 12:55
Thursday 8th July 2004
The latest version of Windows XP 64-bit Edition for 64-bit Extended Systems does not run on Intel processors, according to Infoworld. The current public beta will apparently run only run on AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron chips.
http://www.overclockers.com/tips00614/
The story is going around that the initial Intel x86-64 processors isn't compatible with Windows XP 64-bit Edition.
Actually, if you read the original story, you'll find out that it's the other way around.....
However, as the article linked above points out, Microsoft already has made the necessary fix in build number 1164 of Windows XP 64-bit Edition, which is already being used by corporate testers. MS will release it publicly in the next version of its beta. This will probably be about the time when any x86-64 enabled chips will become publicly available for sale.
In short, now that we have the explanation from MS as to what happened, it's a non-event.
Nvidia Quadro Graphics, Intel E7525 Chipset Link in PCI Platform
http://tinyurl.com/2bxwz
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 28 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- After months of collaboration, NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, and Intel Corporation today separately announced compatible PCI Express(TM)-based products for the ultimate professional computing platform.