31st August 1999 Archive
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Pentium III/mobile at 0.18 micron to arrive fall
Intel Developer Forum But Geyserville won't come with it
Notebook versions of the Pentium III/mobile manufactured using a 0.18 micron process technology will arrive this autumn, Intel said today. Frank Spindler, VP of Intel US mobile division, said that the chip will be released at speeds of up to 500MHz. But, he said, Geyserville would not be incorporated into PIII/mobile parts until …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 00:24
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FlexATX mobos, Concept PCs make it to market
Barbie Doll makes it but bad news for Ken
Motherboard manufacturers have shown designs based on the FlexATX form factor, while a series of outlandish Concept PCs are also gracing the Intel Developer Forum in Palm Springs. Both Gigabyte and MicroStar FlexATX boards are being displayed, but the models only support the Celeron processor so far. Intel would not say when the …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 01:41
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Sun to take on MS Office with free, Websourced Star
Making StarOffice a Web app and giving it away could be a killer combination
Sun claims its purchase of Star Division and its StarOffice suite, due to be announced today, isn't intended to put it into direct competition with Microsoft Office. But its plans for the product could nevertheless pose a very real threat for MS. Sun intends to turn StarOffice into a Web-based application suite which can be run …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 06:34
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Athlon mobos recalled
Component problems blamed as Micro Star pulls its boards from Japanese market
Incompatibility problems have hit AMD's latest chip offering, with one motherboard maker pulling its Athlon-ready mobos off the market. The problem affects the Japanese market, where Micro-Star was among the first mobo manufacturers to ship boards for the Athlon - see story. But now it has recalled all its MS-6167 boards, …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 09:22
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MS failed to spot Hotmail hack threat
Security breach had been in the public domain since June
The security breach in Hotmail that Microsoft says it was only informed about early Monday morning had been discussed for some days in hacker circles. It was written on 7 June and had been "in the wild" since then, so clearly Microsoft is not very vigilant in what is going on in the hacking world. The Register tested and …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 10:50
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European DRAM prices soar
Good for vendors, bad for OEMs
DRAM prices have continued to soar in August, surpassing even the most optimistic of last month’s forecasts. 64Mb chip prices shot up to $8.20 by last Friday, compared to $5.50 at the end of July. The bank holiday weekend was again a scorcher – with GSI quoting chip prices as high as $8.70. This leap has taken even those who …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 11:56
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Intel to climb aboard unmetered bandwagon?
Secret meeting with CUT
Intel has held a secret meeting with the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT), The Register can reveal. The meeting was held last Monday behind closed doors although no details about what was discussed have emerged. One explanation for Intel's interest in CUT might lie in the fact that the chipmaker is concerned that …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 12:10
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Net child porn users searched for real-life abuse
Government updates child abuse investigation guidelines
Online child pornophiles are to be investigated for real world child abuse, under new Government guidelines. The proposals come as part of the updated 'Working Together' programme, set up in the wake of the Cleveland "satanic" child abuse scandal in the early 1980s. Police will be expected to establish if people convicted of …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 12:27
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Computer science ‘cheats’ exposed at second Scottish university
Software analyses 'their' work
A bunch of student cheats has been exposed thanks to a computer programme developed by boffins at Glasgow University. This is the second time this summer that a Scottish university has used software to detect academic trickery among its protégés The programme analysed the work of over 200 computing science students at Glasgow …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 12:44
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S3 unveils Savage 2000
War with Nvidia, 3dfx heats up
S3 yesterday took the wraps off its upcoming Savage 2000 part, which the company claimed is the first 0.18 micron graphics acceleration chip. The Savage 2000's feature set is impressive. The chip will sport S3's integrated transform and lighting engine, the company's texture compression technology, dual pixel/dual texture …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 12:50
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Screaming.net takes legal cudgels against ‘copycat’ ISP
GreatXscape 'infringes copyright' -- allegedly
The telco behind Screaming.net is threatening legal action against Manchester-based Telnet Ltd unless it withdraws CDs and all marketing materials promoting Telnet's GreatXscape ISP. Surrey-based LocalTel alleges Telnet has infringed its copyright and that it has made claims about its service that are in breach of the Trades …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 12:50
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Bowie flogs download album
Fifty retail sites take part
David Bowie is to be "the first major recording artist" to release an album online, before it goes on sale in the shops. (Or so his record company claims. What would Public Enemy have to say about that?) The techie friendly star has already set up his own ISP, Bowienet. The album will be available online in three weeks time -- a …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 13:38
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Toshiba to sell chip JV to partner Motorola
Shake-up of Japanese giant's chip operation continues
Toshiba has confirmed it is taking to Motorola about selling the US giant its share of the two companies' joint chip production operation. The Japanese facility employs 1400 people, and is has racked up debts in the order of Y60 billion. Motorola would use the operation as the staging point for the sale of its chips to the Far …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 14:06
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Corba Component Model gets thumbs up
Might be a year late, but who cares
It would have been a big surprise if the OMG had not approved the Corba Component Model (CCM) specification yesterday in San Jose. The final nod will come in November at the OMG's board meeting. CCM is based on CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture), which is the most widely used cross platform glue. CCM is …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 14:18
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Net/TV convergence myth exploded
Researchers find contradictions in market's development
The US online market is not behaving as predicted. For example, there is no evidence that the TV and Internet markets are converging, according to a study by NPD and Iconoclast. Some 57 per cent of Americans can watch TV and surf at the same time, and 86 per cent of the group do so and are much influenced to visit a site by an …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 14:19
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Poet's daughter was first programmer… NOT
Biography of Lord Byron's daughter makes interesting claims
A new biography of Ada (an abbreviation of Augusta), Countess of Lovelace, by Benjamin Woolley will perpetuate the myth that she was the world's first programmer. There are several problems with this, principally that Charles Babbage himself fulfilled that role, and that he was most notably assisted by his son Herschel, and …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 14:45
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Camino mobo pix found on Web
It'll be the 27th of Sep, as predicted
Our friends at Korean hardware site Kbench have posted some pix of i820 Camino mobos. As revealed here earlier, the boards will become available on the 27th of September, although there is still no firm indication of how many manufacturers will jump on the bandwagon. Taiwanese firms have been reluctant to follow the i810 route, …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 15:17
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Nvidia unveils ‘256-CPU Cray’ GeForce 3D chip
Company restates focus on chip design. It's not interested in board production -- for now...
Nvidia today announced its next-generation graphics acceleration chip, the GeForce 256, the part previously known by the codename 'NV10', a move that sees the company break away from its well-known TNT and slightly less well-known Riva brandnames. The launch also marked the arrival of the first 256-bit graphics accelerator, …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 15:20
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NGIO, Future IO war over – System IO arrives
Intel Developer Forum No more war, just more jaw - updated
The battle between two sets of computing giants to create the next generation of input and output is over. Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, said that agreement had been reached between the proponents of Future IO and NGIO. The new specification will be called System IO and has backing from all players in the dispute. Compaq, HP and …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 15:33
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Intel's Barrett shows Linux running on Merced silicon
Intel Developer Forum ...but Win2000 evaluation period runs out...
As exclusively revealed here two weeks ago, Intel has managed to produce working silicon for the Merced microprocessor. One box ran Linux Apache while another ran 64-bit Win2000, for a while... Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, reserved a demonstration of two machines for the end of his keynote speech. He introduced the head of the …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 16:17
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Intel pushes Rambus hard
Intel Developer Forum Gelsinger gives update on Camino i820
Senior Intel VP Pat Gelsinger said today that Rambus would ramp in quantity throughout the rest of this year, with 46 types of RIMM (Rambus inline memory modules) available from seven vendors. In his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum in Palm Springs, Gelsinger also gave details of the delayed Camino i820 chipset, and …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 16:40
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Intel 810e to slow down Rambus adoption
Acer exec casts doubt on futures
Intel's introduction of the 810e chipset will slow down introduction of Direct Rambus DRAM, said Wayne Jane, of Acer group affiliate, Apacer Technology Inc, a Taipei-based memory module manufacturer. Intel is strongly promoting the Rambus memory technology, however serious delays and cost problems have apparently forced the …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 19:40
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Seven Dramurai™ say they will make Rambus cheaper
Intel Developer Forum But premium will still be 25 per cent more next year
Intel presided over the foundation of the RDRAM Implementers Forum today, with members vowing to reduce the cost of Rambus memory. At a press conference in Palm Springs, Pat Gelsinger, senior VP of Intel's desktop division introduced representatives of seven memory manufacturers, each of which has taken the Rambus pledge. The …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 20:08
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VGA dead: not many end users out of pocket
Intel Developer Forum New lamps for old monitors arrive at 15 per cent premium
The bells were tolling for the VGA standard today as Intel and a large claque of manufacturers said the digital video interface (DVI) will appear and real soon now. And it won't cost very much to buy systems incorporating the interface once it's taken off, major players averred. At the Intel Developer Forum in Palm Springs, …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 20:24
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Intel leaves 1394 out in cold, USB 2.0 exposed to desert glare
Intel Developer Forum There's an awful lot of mythical buses in Palm Springs
While Intel continued to create a song and a dance about the Universal Serial Bus (USB) at this week's forum, behind the scenes political infighting was threatening to ruin the party. The pugilists in the fight are the IEEE1394 Firewire standard and USB 2.0, heartily endorsed by Pat Gelsinger both at last spring's IDF and the …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 22:28
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Chipzilla leapfrogs Chimpzilla in desert
IDF My chip's faster than your chip, says Tweedlebong to TweedleAMD
The CEO of Intel, Craig Barrett, who had earlier been described by underling Patrick Gelsinger as "the ruthless dictator of Intel", today showed he was only human by thumbing his nose at AMD. During his keynote speech, Barrett told Gelsinger that Intel had to release a 700MHz Coppermine chip in October. That piece of forward …
Business 31 Aug 1999, 22:44
