Register roundup:
There's a ton of topical stories up today and yesterday, I don't know how many have been noted here.
AMD talking to Transmeta - official theregister.co.uk
The proposed co-operation appears to centre on chips for the ultra-cheap
PC market - under $400 in Ruiz' terms. "We don't have a good feel for this
market," he said. "It is so fragmented with various proposed solutions that it's
hard to pull our arms around it."
Users cool on Itanic deployment theregister.co.uk
Er, because it feels like an iceberg may be near?
"Intel is extremely sophisticated when it comes to pricing. It's not going to be
another 432" he says. The iAPX-432 "MicroMainframe" was an ambitious
32bit processor announced by Intel in 1981, and is all but airbrushed from the
company's history. Even the Usenet group has disappeared, but you can read
about it here.
Intel confirms Xeon shortages theregister.co.uk
But the gigaXeon will be here Real Soon Now, cheaper than the gigamine too!
Foster, meanwhile, seems to have developed that persistent Intel infection
called "lateness".
Roadmaps leaked to The Reg originally suggested Foster processors would
appear in Q1. This will happen for workstation flavours of the
microprocessor, but multiprocessing (MP) four way and eight way Fosters
won't now happen until quarter three of next year and will be a "pilot release".
Dual processor parts, based on the ServerWorks chipset, won't be
introduced until Q2 of next year. ®
1GHz Xeon ships today, Pentium 4 Q4 theregister.co.uk
That's right, get your gigaXeon right now, Today! Don't hold your breath on anything slower, though.
At the same time Yu gave an update on the Intel Itanium processor,
confirming that pilot systems will ship at the end of the year.
Pilot systems for the Itanic, that inspires a certain awe. Hard astarboard! Reverse the engines!
Sony confirms AMD deal theregister.co.uk
Sony said the upcoming Vaio Note F series model PCG-F70/BP will contain
a 550MHz AMD K6-2+ CPU. The entry-level machine is due to ship in
Japan next month, alongside the Crusoe-based Vaio C1 sub-notebook. . . .
Probably just as well Sony isn't interested in power consumption on the
PCG-F70/BP since, according to Nikkei newswire, presumably citing Sony
itself, the machine isn't compatible with AMD's PowerNow! low-power
consumption technology. Ahem - time to get some more drivers done, we
think... ®
Intel late again on Merced-Itanium theregister.co.uk
Dog bites man!
Then Curry became, so to speak, enflamed with passion and delivered this
emissive to the people.
"This isn't as simple as cloning a chip that somebody already invented. We're
inventing the whole platform."
He continued along the line that two years ago Intel had said it would have a
working system in June 2000 did not take account of the complexity of the
situation.
But his top quote was, and is, "A few months either way isn't that significant."
Microsoft stubs Intel's toes with chip theregister.co.uk
Yeah, but Intel will get back at them, when they ship a few million $20 x-box cpus next year. Them crates will clog the halls everywhere in Redmond, or will they just ship them them in the dumpsters?
If Microsoft is going to start making chips, then perhaps Intel should press the
button on very sophisticated operating systems it has sitting in various of its
Intel Architecture Labs around the world. ®
Er, um, no comment
Cheers, Dan. |
