Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)

AMD 210.00

-2.0%

Jan 7 3:59 PM EST

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: porn_start878 who wrote (34031)	3/28/2001 11:56:20 PM
From: Petz	of 275872

VIA PX266 for Pentium 4 ready now, but not expected until November? Found this on XBit's news today: xbitlabs.com VIA: core logic for P4 is ready to serve [6:26 am] Gavric VIA’s officials talk at CeBIT that PX266 chipset for Intel Pentium 4 CPU is 100% ready to be launched anytime, but the company is not eager to do it right now. As a justification the officials point out low sales volumes of these CPUs. Naturally, we should not disregard the fact that VIA hasn’t yet got Intel’s license to manufacture this chipset. Although the company’s officials allege that they don’t care about that at all, they had better not launch PX266 earlier than Brookdale (a Low-End chipset for Pentium 4 by Intel). Otherwise Intel would get mightily indignant. It will be an absolutely different thing if VIA does it in the end of the year - by this time Brookdale is to become popular enough and Intel must grant VIA the license. As a matter of fact, the companies’ plan seems to be going like that: mainboards based on PX266 should appear no earlier than in November-December 2001, i.e., only two or three months before the boards based on the second version of Brookdale supporting DDR SDRAM come out. Apparently this is a DDR chipset, but a couple things don't make sense with this: 1) Intel has apparently pushed back their schedule and Brookdale will hardly be "popular" already by November, it will just be released. (According to Gelsinger... but possibly the first SDRAM Brookdale was cancelled and it is the DDR version that will appear at the end of the year.) 2) It has been previously reported that PC2100 DDR would be incompatible with the (effective) 400 MHz FSB of the Pentium 4 and that only 200 MHz DDR would work. 3) Its hard to believe that VIA would wait 7 months for Intel's blessing This raises the possibility that the FSB of P4's will be pushed up to 133 MHz (quad pumped) shortly, probably not to get more bandwidth, but for specsmanship (the "GigaPC") and to allow better (synchronous) performance with PC133 and compatibility with PC2100. Petz

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next