22nd August 1999 Archive

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Intel fires first serious price salvo in AMD K7 war

Slash and burn...now it's AMD's turn

SUMMARY Pentium II family dead, Pentium III/450 sent to gulag, fresh price action expected on mobile, server parts, further pressure put on AMD As revealed here earlier, Intel chose today to unleash a battery of price cuts in its high end Pentium III desktop family. (Story: Intel to announce fresh Pentium III prices) The price …

Business 22 Aug 1999, 06:01
Intel: clocking software roundup

Some views on the NEWSPEED software

We've now got some real feedback on this piece of Intel software, and thought it worthwhile doing a brief roundup. After having a few days to weigh the opinions of people more technical than ourselves, we are now able to give our usual unbalanced view of Intel's piece of NEWSPEED software. George Schnurer, executive editor at c' …

Business 22 Aug 1999, 10:40
Last week in microprocessors 16-22 Aug 1999

A roundup of some of our chippy stories

Far from being a quiet time of the year, August 1999 decided to keep everyone at The Register well busy. On the microprocessor front, we started the week by reporting that the Pentium II family has now reached the end of the road. Coupled to that, our favourite Japanese site Happy Cat posted a delicious Intel roadmap with some …

Business 22 Aug 1999, 11:33
Everything matters to Rambus

SDRAM it matters, DDR it matters, everything matters

Rambus was a busy company 20 August last. It registered a total of nine different Internet domain names, all with the word matters inside their titles. For example, it registered RAMBUSMATTERS.NET and RAMBUSMATTERS.ORG -- understandably. Less understandably, it even seemed to get caring and sharing about the opposition. So it …

Business 22 Aug 1999, 18:44