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Intel cranks up Celeron to 2GHz
19/09/2002 
 
Intel yesterday began shipping a 2GHz Celeron chip, which means that tcheap PC you buy for Christmas needn't run like a dachshund.

Celerons are aimed at the budget PC market, also occupied by AMD's Durons (for now - AMD is winding down Duron production in 2003).

Intel's new top-of-the line chip is certainly cheap - $103 a pop in 1,000 units - Intel can price the part this low partly because it is manufactured on the 0.13m process line.

What else? The 2GHz Celeron has a 400MHz system bus and uses 478-pin packaging. ®
AMD launches mobile Athlon XP 2000+ and 1900+ for notebook market
Original date: 2002/9/24

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) on September 24 launched its two latest notebook-use processors, the mobile Athlon XP 2000+ and 1900+.

Manufactured on AMD’s 0.13-micron copper process, the new mobile processors support Socket A infrastructure and an FSB (front-side bus) speed of up to 266MHz.

The mobile Athlon XP processor features QuantiSpeed architecture, fully pipelined super-scalar micro-architecture, a super-scalar floating point unit, hardware data pre-fetch, and exclusive and speculative Translation Look-aside Buffers (TLB). Other features include support for AMD’s 3DNow! Professional instruction set for enhanced multimedia capabilities, and AMD PowerNow! technology for extended battery life.

The new mobile Athlon XP processors 2000+ and 1900+ are priced at US$345 and US$239, respectively, in 1,000-unit quantities.

Currently, the mobile Athlon XP 2000+ has been adopted by the new Hewlett-Packard (HP) for its Compaq Presario 900 and by Fujitsu Siemens Computers for its AMILO A 6600/7600 series notebooks.

Later this year, Packard Bell, the consumer division of NEC Computers International, will also offer a line of notebooks based on the mobile Athlon XP processor 1900+.

AMD Athlon breaks through 2GHz mark

AMD launched its fastest ever processors (21.08.2002), the Athlon XP processor 2400+ and 2600+, claiming their application performance outshone anything arch-rival Intel had to offer. (Click for Full story)

 

Intel launches 2GHz P4-M

Intel launched a 2GHz version of the Pentium 4-M, its fastest mobile CPU.

 

Sun Introduces 650 MHz UltraSPARC IIi (CPU)

Sun has announced the introduction of 550 MHz and 650 MHz UltraSPARC IIi processors  Click Here for more

 

Intel’s  Celeron now at 1.4 & 1.7 GHz

Intel's oldest processors are new again, adding former Pentium 4's that couldn't quite make the cut.   

Intel Pentium4 now at 2.26, 2.4(B) & 2.56 GHz

A bus boost to 533MHz breaths new life into Intel's flagship.

ALi launches K8 chipset

ALi Corporation (formerly Acer Laboratories) recently launched its new M1687/M1563 chipset solution for 8th-generation (K8) core-based processors, the server-compliant Opteron and desktop-supporting Athlon, from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) at the Computex Taipei exhibition.

Samsung preps DDR- II DRAM

Samsung today claims an industry first, a high-density 512Mb DDR-II memory chip. Or rather a prototype, the company says it's developing the part which is it says the first to fully satisfy the new JEDEC DDR-II standard, introduced in March 2002. It will go in to volume production in Q3 2003. The Korean giant today also announced that IBM has developed a DDR-II memory subs-sytem, which Samsung has validated using early 128Mb DDR-II device prototypes. According to Samsung this validation shows the technology is not flaky. Also it claims this first try-out will "greatly reduce the lead time for introducing this new design". 

VIA Announces P4PB Pro Mainboard, Featuring VIA's Most Advanced Apollo P4X333 North/South Bridge Chipset Combination…
With the VIA P4PB Pro Mainboard VIA is first to market with a high performance mainboard based on the new VIA Apollo P4X333 North Bridge and VT8235 South Bridge chipset combination, providing the ultimate performance and connectivity platform for the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor. Follow this link for more details.