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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (40282)	5/17/2001 12:59:07 AM
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<font color=blue>The InQuest Update: May 16, 2001 New Analysis: The War Escalates: Athlon4 takes on Pentium4 Preliminary Agenda Online Now: Platform Conference July 24-25, 2001 **New Analysis: ACR vs. CNR - Sizing up Riser Card Standards ______________________________________________________________ Preliminary Agenda Online Now Platform Conference July 24-25, 2001 San Jose We are pleased to announce the Title Sponsors of the July 2001 Platform Conference: Advanced Micro Devices, Elpida Memory, VIA Technologies, National Semiconductor. In addition we welcome the Mobile Advisory Council as an Affiliate Sponsor to the event. Platform Conference is your source for a comprehensive view of the key issues and debates facing product planners, high-level architects, technical decision makers, platform strategits and developers of computing platforms. You'll hear from industry leaders, technical experts and respected industry analysts, as well as have the opportunity to network with your peers. Platform Conference is a pivotal opportunity to gather the latest information on groundbreaking new technical initiatives, product announcements, implementation details and to learn how these should impact your product strategy. Platform Conference is a 'must see' event designed to facilitate interactive discussion and debate on computing hardware strategies, technologies, standards and implementations. This conference offers an exclusive opportunity to evaluate the latest technologies, trends and initiatives in Platform I/O, Communications, Microprocessors, DRAM, Chip Sets, Graphics and Multimedia. Platform Conference's intimate and interactive setting will allow you to gain vital perspectives and connect directly with the visionaries and architects who are driving the latest strategies, standards, products, technologies and roadmaps that will impact your design decisions over the next 12 months. Catch a glimpse of what's coming at platformconference.com (Be sure to register now while early registration discounts still apply!) ________________________________________________ The War Escalates: Althon4 takes on Pentium4 Building on the considerable success of its Thunderbird Athlon core, AMD has managed to surprise everyone with the potency of its Palomino CPU design. The new 1GHz power managed Mobile Athlon4 (the mobile iteration of the Palomino core) should compete admirably with Intel’s Mobile P3. The Athlon4 incorporates a hardware data prefetch feature plus 3DNow Professional, which offers backward compatibility to Intel’s SSE instruction set. Soon, these performance enhancing features will also show up in AMD’s new desktop CPU, fueling its already strong position against Intel’s P4. On the other side of the fence, Intel is struggling in its transition to 0.13 micron, further delaying its transition to the Northwood processor. The good news for P4 is its upcoming break with Rambus as its only memory option. This comes on the heels of the sensational Rambus courtroom backfire, rendering Rambus’ SDRAM and DDR patent claims unenforceable and resulting in a jury judgment of Fraud against Rambus with damages levied of 3.5 million dollars. But adding to the market confusion about the P4 comes the recent discovery by Alex Behrens (Hardware-Unlimited) of what appears to be P4 clock throttling in QuakeIII. After he disclosed his initial findings, we collaborated with him to independently verify his observations. After satisfying ourselves that Alex’s results were real and reproducible, we continued our research uncovering other P4 performance anomalies, indicating possible CPU clock throttling under conditions other than Quake3. Included in this article are details on: Mobile Athlon4 Processor AMD's Future Desktop Strategy Intel Pentum4 Processor Updates P4 Performance Issues How Throttling Works - Bugs vs. Features P4 Hot Spots Tolerances Power Expectations for the 2GHz Willamette P4 Examples of P4 Performance Throttling Check out the complete story at inqst.com (Feature Article) __________________________________________________________________ ACR vs. CNR - Sizing up Riser Card Standards A new technology battle is being waged on what may seem to be a rather obscure front. The turf is PC communications, and the name of the game is integration. The industry is faced with two new proposals for riser card standards, loaded with PC communications and audio features. After an unsuccessful shot at AMR (the Audio Modem Riser card standard), a new crop of companies are going at it again with communications technologies added to the mix. This confrontation lacks the sizzle commonly associated with 3D graphics controllers, or the drama of the ongoing contest between AMD’s and Intel’s fastest microprocessors. But it is no less important for the semiconductor manufacturers involved, as well as for OEMs and users. In fact, this battle is the tip of the iceberg, foreshadowing a much bigger and longer battle over PC platform I/O technologies, and a struggle for control of future PC designs. Check out the complete story at inqst.com ____________________________________________________________________ Distribtuion List Management Please feel free to forward this email to any interested colleagues. If you have received this email from a source other than our distribution list, you may subscribe to the receive InQuest Updates at inqst.com.