Trade Shows
For Computex week, Micron was at the show in force in order to talk about its latest products across the memory spectrum. The biggest news for the memory company was that it has kicked-off sampling of it's next-gen GDDR7 memory, which is expected to start showing up in finished products later this year and was being demoed on the show floor. Meanwhile, the company is also eyeing taking a much larger piece of the other pillar of the high-performance memory market – High Bandwidth Memory – with aims of capturing around 25% of the premium HBM market. GDDR7 to Hit the Market Later This Year Micron's first GDDR7 chip is a 16 Gb memory device with a 32 GT/sec (32Gbps/pin) transfer rate, which is significantly faster...
Fall IDF 2005 - Day 3: Intel Demos On-Chip North Bridge & Voltage Regulator
Forget about AMD's on-die memory controller, Intel's got on-chip memory controller, graphics and voltage regulator in their latest research project. And it works.
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/25/2005Fall IDF 2005 - Day 2: More Details on VIIV and Next-Gen Architecture
We've got more details on Intel's Memory Disambiguation technology and the hardware (and software) requirements for the VIIV platform. We also found out the trick behind Intel's instant...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/24/2005Fall IDF 2005 - Day 2: Intel Introduces their VIIV Brand
Intel introduced Centrino for desktops and it's called VIIV (pronounced vive). Find out what the future for the Digital Home PC will be in 2006.
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/24/2005Fall IDF 2005 - Day 2: Pat Gelsinger Reveals Intel's Server Plans
Pat Gelsinger reveals Intel's future server plans, including their new Xeon cores with up to 16MB of on-die cache and approximately 1.3 billion transistors.
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/24/2005Fall IDF 2005 - Day 1: Coverage of Everything
We finish up our Day 1 coverage with a little bit of everything. ATI running CrossFire on 955X platforms, Intel/Panasonic's new battery technology, speculative thread execution, Xbox 360...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/24/2005Fall IDF 2005 - Day 1: Pictures of Intel's Next Generation CPUs
Now that we've talked a bit about its architecture, we're ready to show you some pictures of the actual 65nm next-generation CPUs. Pics of Conroe, Yonah and even...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/23/2005Fall IDF 2005 - Day 1: Intel's New Architecture Details Revealed
UPDATED. Just after Intel's opening keynote of the conference, they have provided us with some more detailed information on their new microprocessor architecture. Features include a 14-stage pipeline...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/23/2005Fall IDF 2005 - Day 1: Intel Introduces new Microprocessor Architecture
IDF has begun, and Intel kicks it off with a formal announcement of their brand new 65nm processors based on a unified architecture.
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/23/2005Industry Update - Q2-2005: Chipset wars, AMD's growing market share and more...
There's a lot of updating to do on the CPU, chipset, motherboard and memory markets based on our findings at this year's Computex in Taiwan.
45 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/13/2005Computex 2005 - Looking Ahead
More companies will make Crossfire, DDR2-1000 Memory, Abit emerges from financial chaos, Foxconn moves into AMD market, and more.
20 by Wesley Fink on 6/10/2005Apple's Move to x86: More Questions Answered
We provide our thoughts on Apple's switch and shed some more light on your questions.
56 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/7/2005WWDC 2005 - Apple to Move to Intel Processors in 2006
It's true. Starting in 2006, Apple will begin transitioning to Intel processors. We have the full story from today's keynote.
65 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2005Computex 2005 - Day 3 Tidbits
Even a minor earthquake won't stop us from posting Computex coverage! Inside, we have a look at the case, storage and display booths, along with some tidbits from...
35 by Kristopher Kubicki on 6/1/2005Computex 2005 Day 2 - ULi's new Athlon 64 Chipset, G70, CrossFire & more
We got to benchmark ULi's new Athlon 64 chipset, got more time with NVIDIA's G70, CrossFire motherboards, cooling at Computex and tons of motherboards from the show.
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2005Computex 2005 Day 1 - ATI R520 Sighting, NVIDIA's new Chipset
We've seen ATI's R520 running, NVIDIA's new C51G running, and walls upon walls of motherboards and servers.
37 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2005Computex 2005 Early Bird Coverage: NVIDIA's G70, Athlon 64 BTX and more
With the show a day away from starting, we've already seen the first AMD BTX motherboard, a number of NVIDIA G70 graphics cards, an Intel motherboard that can be...
80 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/30/2005Xbox 360 - Up Close & Personal with Live, the Console and the Wireless Controller
Although information about the next-gen consoles was limited, we were able to get some time with the new Xbox Live, the actual console itself and the new wireless controller...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/20/2005E3 2005 - Day 2: More Details Emerge on Console GPUs
Details on NVIDIA's RSX and ATI's Xbox 360 GPU are scarce, but we did our best to gather details that have yet to be published.
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/19/2005E3 2005 - Day 1: The Xbox 360 Update
Our first few hours of this year's E3 were spent searching for the Xbox 360...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/18/2005Sony Introduces Playstation 3, to launch in 2006
Sony introduced the Playstation 3 today...and wow
71 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/16/2005