Yet another week's articles from EE-Times of interest to PC nuts...
Fractured PC market shapes CPU road map
At the low end, new entrants are scrambling to grab real estate in the only hot segment of the PC market, the sub-$1,000 arena. As Intel casts about for an answer here, ventures as diverse as National Semiconductor's Cyrix group, IDT's Centaur division and startup Rise Technology will show X86 CPUs targeted for low-cost, low-power systems.
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Meanwhile, the sub-$1,000 race is giving Intel headaches as well. As the company appears to fumble about with a proliferation of pinouts, cacheless and cost-reduced parts and private briefings, new ventures are flocking to the market.
techweb.com
AMD licenses Direct Rambus tech
AMD is expected to match its K-7 processor, coming to market next year, with Direct Rambus DRAMs.
techweb.com
-- Carl |
