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Misc. news round-up

Julio
02-25-2004, 04:51 AM
HP (http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-5164310.html?tag=nefd_top) plans Opteron servers, makes AMD partnership official.

Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/cpu/004/pentium-m/pentium-m-1.html) takes a close look to the Pentium M, mostly known as the processor used in Centrino PCs.

The latest in cell phone technology (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/24/mobile.show.ap/index.html) at Cannes mobile-phone show.

Symbian (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/35796.html) releases real-time, one-chip OS.

Codemasters' Colin McRae Rally 04 (http://www.codemasters.com/downloads/displayfiles.php?showdetails=12848) single player demo is now available for download.

Nvidia (http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11332.html) has chosen TSMC for 0.11 Micron GPU manufacturing.

The Complete Guide to Googlemania (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/google.html?tw=wn_tophead_3).

Eminem (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040224/us_nm/people_eminem_dc_10) sues Apple.

Masque
02-25-2004, 08:22 AM
The HP announcement is interesting considering HP's partnership with Intel in actually 'developing' the Itanium. It shows a smart company covering all their bases.

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02-25-2004, 08:22 AM

Didou
02-25-2004, 08:48 AM
That ArsTechnica article is very good. I especially like this part :

This brings us to the Pentium M. The PM takes one of the P4's strengths--its branch prediction capabilities--and improves on it, adding its advantages to the strengths of the P6 architecture. The PM also deepens the P6's pipeline a bit, allowing for better clockspeed scaling, but without making clockspeed the central factor driving performance. In short, the PM looks like what the P4 might have been, had Intel not been so obsessed with the MHz race--it's a kind of alternate past, but one that may provide a glimpse of Intel's future.

Masque
02-25-2004, 09:02 AM
Hadn't read that. That's kind of eye-opening. Thanks for pointing it out Didou. :)

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