Wild on! IDF: Part Deux
fm: CPU Power User
May 2002, Page 32
Alex Ross
Further on in the future will be the Tejas processor, which was briefly mentioned in Intel's "Powersville" platform slide. The Tejas will apparently replace Prescott and be coupled with DDR2 memory, showing that RDRAM has no place on future Intel road maps. Somewhat ironic is that it has taken over two years since the P4's inception for Intel to not only adopt DDR but to make it a faster performing solution to RDRAM. The first time that will happen on the P4 is with the Canterwood and Springdale dual-channel DDR chipsets, which will match, and in some cases beat, an i850E platform.
And speaking of RDRAM, Rambus was again a Gold Sponsor at IDF. What did the company have up its sleeves? The SiS R658 PC1200-based chipset has never really made anything of itself, even with ABIT's support, but the company talked about the successor, the R659 chipset, featuring Quad-Channel RDRAM. Once again, SiS will be developing the chipset, which will support up to 9.6GB of bandwidth. |
