Hi all! I was having some trouble with my AOpen EU965 barebone ( http://xc.aopen.com.tw/Cube-m-specification%20.aspx?Auno=2209 ) and getting access to the full 4GB I plugged into it. And now their helpdesk is telling me the following: 'Based on the specification of the chipset, it can support...

Intel held its annual analyst day today. Lots of news coverage about it. Everybody is asking what's going wrong with Intel and what Intel intends to do about it. This article says that Intel will from now on start introducing new microarchitectures every two years instead of every 4-6...

Having been hit by the w32.blaster myself, I was thinking why do the main IA32 vendors not put an end to this. How? Provide some (sticky) bit in some MSR to disable this expletive JMP ESP instruction. Make it generate an #UD exception instead, so the OS could actually spot an attack right when...

http://www.dailytech.com/Dodecacore+The+Megahertz+Race+is+Now+Officially+the+Multicore+Race/article11531.htm Hardware Dodeca-co The Megahertz Race is Now Officially the Multi- core Race AMD engineers reveal details about the company's upcoming 45nm processor roadmap, including plans for...

ircirc ircirc wrote: Seriously, I've never heard so much noise about an action that's about 40 years behind the curve. It'd be far more impressive if they came up with a CPU that would clobber Intel and AMD. Actually there is a native made Chinese CPU that reaches the level...

***Big News*** Intel's Itanium chips have hit the $14 billion in revenue mark!! However there was a small one-time over-optimism charge of $13.4bn. BUT THIS STUFF IS INCREDIBLE, IT'S EXACTLY AS IDC HAD PREDICTED ALL ALONG!! That's an amazing 5,665 server units, this past quarter!!! PS- Oh, and...

Intel pulls back from FB-DIMMs "Intel is telling everyone who will listen that they are going back to rDIMMs in 2008 over about 90% of their server line. This is due to them not being able to hit power numbers, seemingly a problem with the tech itself vs implementations, and of course...

The actual title of the article is "Intel playing catch-up to AMD business" http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/050905-intel-amd.html quote Intel's top server executive recently acknowledged the disparity between his company's server processor road maps and Advanced Micro Devices, but said...

Goodbye ATI - AMD now the big name in graphics cards - News - PC Authority "Way back in 2006 AMD shocked the technology world by acquiring Canadian graphics company Array Technologies Inc (ATI). Since that time ATI's Radeon graphics cards have become one of AMD's major strengths, thanks largely...

Nvidia Said to Take On Intel in Tablet Computer Chips - Bloomberg "Trying to replicate the performance of Intel chips using software -- an approach Transmeta tried about a decade ago -- hasn’t worked before because it’s hard to deliver enough performance to run computer programs like Microsoft...

I asked this question about three months ago and at the time didn't get much response so am hoping for better luck this time. I have visited many retail outlets over the last three months in an attempt to learn about laptops but am unable to believe a word any salesman tells me. What one bloke says...

It seems Intel is running tight on low-end chipset capacity at its older fabs, and is going to concentrate on the high-end Centrino chipsets and stuff. That means all of the Celerons will be left high and dry (can't run a CPU without chipset -- yet). It's not likely that the Taiwanese chipset...

I know there is a little bit of skepticism (well actually a lot of it) about x86's potential in the 4-way market. The high-end server market has feasted on the high prices due to the lack of competition from any commodity systems at this level. There's been talk for years that Intel is finally...

Greetings! http://hardware.itmanagersjournal.com/hardware/05/03/03/0226235.shtml?tid=78 The article quotes at length one Jim Trounson, who is part of group that is developing a PCI-X card for Cell, or so they say. Best science fiction of 2005 already awarded? quote

Looks like the AMD Opteron is quickly becoming the favoured chip for large supercomputing applications, only a few months after introduction. Their latest announcement involves Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico, which will build two separate computing clusters from these chips, one called...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20040923180613.html Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30000 I laughed and laughed.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5281908.html Among other things that they're proposing for the Itanium are SpeedStep and multiple i/o buses (a la Hypertransport?). Yousuf Khan -- Humans: contact me at ykhan at rogers dot com Spambots: just reply to this email address ;-)

AMD introduced 4 new Athlon 64 and FX models. However each one seems to be designed for three different types of sockets. Athlon 64 3500+ and 3800+ are designed for the Socket 939, while Athlon 64 3700+ is designed for Socket 754. Meanwhile are now two FX-53 models, the older one designed for...

Terry Shannon recently did an interview about the future directions of OpenVMS. HP strongly denies they will ever port their OpenVMS operating system over to x86 extensions (AMD64, EM64T) from Itanium. Of course, just a few months ago, they were strongly denying that they would ever use...