AnandTech has an early look at the new, budget line of CPUs from AMD called Sempron. They have a Socket A and Socket 754 version on the testbed today and the results are rather speedy for what’s supposed to be…
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EE Times reports on Intel’s plan to bring together two of its distinct CPU lines, the Itanium and Xeon. The Xeon was usually found in small to mid-range servers but new models are 64-bit processing capable while Itaniums were stuck…
Read more Intel Merging Xeon/Itanium Lines
PC Magazine has the details on AMD’s newest (old) processor line named Sempron. Odds are the chips are based on already existing designs, meaning, a rebadged Athlon XP for Socket A boards and an Athlon 64 with all of the…
Read more AMD Launches Sempron
Various U.S. Government agencies seem to be busy purchasing massive new supercomputers for all of their math crunching needs. This time NASA has ordered a huge machine from Silicon Graphics which will had a total of 10,240 Intel Itanium 2…
Read more NASA Orders SGI/Intel Supercomp
MSI, one of the largest motherboard and peripheral manufacturers, is planning to continue branding and packaging drives despite the rumored sale of its optical drive making unit. This DigiTimes newsbit mentions that MSI’s unit only makes simple optical drives and…
Read more MSI Mulling Optical Options
Gamers Depot seem to have the first crack at a new chipset from ATI for notebook and other portable applications. The Mobility Radeon 9800 is a sizable upgrade over previous generations with features such as a 256-bit wide memory interface…
Read more ATI Mobility Radeon 9800 Previewed
DigiTimes has some coverage of AMD’s latest round of price changes for its CPU lines. Normally there would be nothing but price cuts across the board for their current processors, now the Athlon 64 had a nice drop in price…
Read more AMD CPU Pricing Changes
IBM is in the process of designing/building a supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense which will connect 368 machines, containing 3,000 PowerPC processors which should make it a very peppy machine. Reuters has more details on the project….
Read more IBM Building Supercomputer
Microsoft has launched the DirectX 9.0c package, usually reserved for developers to include with their products, but freely available to the meer mortals out there. It supposedly contains support for some of the ATI Radeon x800 and NVIDIA 6800’s advanced…
Read more DirectX 9.0c Redistributable Released
The Inquirer heard it through the grape vine that Cisco may be working on software for its routers that can curb the mounds of spam that flow through their products each day. Interesting, if true, although the whole world doesn’t…
Read more Cisco Working on Anti-Spam Tech?
Seagate is extending the warranty for most of their hard drive lines manufactured after June 1st. The coverage length for drives is now 5 years instead of the rather short 1 year period which most drive manufacturers had adopted as…
Read more Seagate Offers Longer Warranties
