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News from CeBIT 2002: ISO standard for Flat Panels, XP mp lock

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Old 03-19-2002
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News from CeBIT 2002: ISO standard for Flat Panels, XP mp lock

Source: http://www.cebit.de/21508

ISO standard for Flat Panels
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Consumers who want to buy a flat panel according to ISO 13406-2 shall for the first time be enabled to rely on assured characteristics like pixel failure class and viewing angle class. The new norm includes high technical specifications.

The specifications and the resulting technical data shall be much more reliable than the details presently given by manufacturers. An example is contrast details for lighted working conditions instead of contrast details for dark room conditions as hitherto given by manufacturers.
Athlon XP in Future Locked
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In future AMD would switch off the dual-processor capability of its Athlon XP CPUs, Athlon Brand Manager Mark de Frere said in an exclusive interview with tecCHANNEL.

One wanted better protection for customers of multi-processor systems and therefore make sure that really only Athlon MP processors provided for it would be used, Mark de Frere stated. He did not want to give an exact date for the lock but said it was sure it would happen this very year.

AMD totally remained silent about the realization. According to industry sources the switching off of the SMP capability shall result from configuration bridges that are torn through with a laser at packaging. This solution AMD already uses as CPU overclocking lock for fixing the core clock multiplier. Should the SMP protection be realized likewise then it could be avoided the same way as the multiplier lock. Instructions for that are circulating in the Web for month now.
Much more available at CeBIT
Its quite a good site for little snippets of what is going on at CeBIT. Even better if you can read german as only a fraction of it is in English

Also availble is a realplayer stream of CeBIT radio so you can hear all the summing up of the last day....
CeBIT Radio

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