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  • Foster is Pentium 4 Doppelganger

    Marchitecture and DDR engine revs up

    Sources close to Intel in Japan have told The Register that Foster, the server version of the Pentium 4, and which is expected sometime in the first half of next year, will now support double data rate (DDR) memory, although Rambus memory still remains something of an option for high end workstation platforms. Foster has …

    Channel 17 Sep 2000, 11:14

  • AMD aims at the Enterprise

    Leak 0 Jumpstart your way to the Internet?

    Australian resellers close to AMD's plans have showed The Register details of an extensive presentation the firm is touting to its customers. This part deals with its marchitecture, but we have also seen details of its future architecture plans, as already partly leaked at AMD Zone and at JC's Pages. It's evident that AMD is, …

    Channel 17 Sep 2000, 23:08

  • AMD spells out architecture plans

    Leak 1 It's Gorillazilla, Chimpzilla avers

    As accurately reported in both AMD Zone and JC's Pages, the Athlon 200MHz front side bus (FSB) will shortly increase to 266MHz, giving 2.128Gbps, while the EV6 bus it uses will scale successfully to 400MHz. An AMD presentation says that while Willamette (the Intel Pentium 4) will use the 400MHz data rate at 64 bits, this may be …

    Channel 17 Sep 2000, 23:08

  • Register becomes AMD approved

    Leak 2 Yikes! We don't want it

    Confidential Slides seen by The Register over the weekend show that AMD is telling its resellers to visit our site, in order to see that double data rate (DDR) memory is better than Rambus. That, by the way, is not a conclusion we've ever come to. And this is a seal of approval that doesn't necessarily do us a great deal of …

    Channel 17 Sep 2000, 23:08

  • AMD hits out at remarks, overclocking

    Leak 3 Over 50 re-mark cases this year

    Resellers of AMD's brand of microprocessors have been told by the firm of the three classifications it has for people who remark and/or overclock their chips, according to documents shown to Australian resellers. The first, overclocking by individuals, are by people who want to push the envelope. These people want to …

    Channel 17 Sep 2000, 23:17

  • AMD leaks four ways, big time

    Enterprise, o'clocking remarks, architecture, The Reg and Rambus

    There are four stories under this heading, all based on reports from Australian resellers close to AMD's plans, and some details of which have already been reported from the external sites listed below our links. To avoid cluttering up the front page, we've decided to link them from this central point. All of the stories can be …

    Channel 17 Sep 2000, 23:46