Most Popular
| Top Stories | Commented | Featured |
TechSpot Blog: Disable Windows automatic check for solutions after a program crashes featured
Weekend Open Forum: Google Chrome OS and the future of cloud computing featured
Tech Tip of the Week: Unearth Region-Specific Windows 7 Themes featured
Sony: PlayStation 3 to be 3D-capable via firmware update
Weekend tech reading: How to run Chrome OS as a virtual machine
Facebook named third most popular video website behind YouTube and Hulu
Details of Intel's 32nm Atom emerge, on track for 2011
iSuppli: DDR3 to account for over half of DRAM shipments by Q2 2010
TechSpot RSSInformation Technology
Boxed 533MHz FSB Dothans spotted
A week before they were due to be introduced, Intel Pentium M processors with support for a 533MHz frontside bus have been spotted on sale in Japan. Now that "Sonoma" - the next generation of Intel's Centrino platform - is shortly on its way, it looks like Intel have been shipping key components to PC makers in order for them to use them in their systems.
Central to Sonoma is the 'Alviso' chipset, which will initially be made available in two forms, the discrete 915PM and the integrated 915GM. Alviso began shipping in December 2004. A key feature is support for a 533MHz FSB, up from the original Centrino's 400MHz bus, so it was only a matter of time before boxed 533MHz Pentium Ms appeared.
Features include the 'no execute' bit, which when used with Windows XP SP2 can prevent some viruses running from 'data only' memory, and of course 2MB of L2 cache. The new chips are clocked at 1.60, 1.73, 1.86 and 2.00GHz.
Central to Sonoma is the 'Alviso' chipset, which will initially be made available in two forms, the discrete 915PM and the integrated 915GM. Alviso began shipping in December 2004. A key feature is support for a 533MHz FSB, up from the original Centrino's 400MHz bus, so it was only a matter of time before boxed 533MHz Pentium Ms appeared.
Features include the 'no execute' bit, which when used with Windows XP SP2 can prevent some viruses running from 'data only' memory, and of course 2MB of L2 cache. The new chips are clocked at 1.60, 1.73, 1.86 and 2.00GHz.
