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AMD / Rambus agreement   Posted on 03/01/2006 at 19:56 by Marc

	AMD has signed a five-year, $75 million patent license agreement with Rambus. The license includes Rambus patents used in the design of DDR2, DDR3, FB-DIMM, PCI Express and XDR. This make us think that AMD is probably planning on accelerating the development cycle of a processor including one or several of these controllers – DDR and PCI Express for example?

First test of the Raptor 150 GB   Posted on 03/01/2006 at 18:52 by Marc

	StorageReview has published the first test of the new Raptor WD1500AD. Access time has slightly increased compared to the 74 GB version from 7.7ms to 8.0ms reading and 8.4 to 9.0 ms writing. Data transfer rate is the most improved with this new version from 53.9 to 60.2 MB on average. On the outer diameter tracks the gap is even more important and reaches 88.3 MB /s for continuous data transfer as compared to 71.8 MB /s for the previous generation. In single user's applicative tests, Western takes the lead with the WD1500AD thanks to a score of 775 score in the SR HighEnd Driver Mark 2006 test. In this test, the Raptor 74 GB was only 4 points lower than Hitachi's 7K500 (645 points). This 500 GB driver is very fast mainly thanks to the first dozen of GB of the drive used for this test. In a server, if the new Raptor confirms Western's supremacy on SATA drives (10k Rpm!), SCSI drives remain clearly superior because of a better multi-user loads especially from 16 and above. Noise level in use measured is comparable to the 74 GB version. Two versions will be available: : - « Raptor X » - WD1500AHFD, for high end PC - « Raptor 150 » - WD1500ADFD, for professionals We could have believed that the difference between the two products would have been a more or less optimised firmware, but it isn't. The only difference is the presence of a polycarbonate plate on top of the X version to see inside the disc. Tuning enthusiasts will appreciate that and other users will certainly choose the less expensive classic version. The two version have a five year warranty, 600 000 hours MTBF and 1.2 million for the 150. They will respectively be available in March and at the end of January.

Intel changes logo !   Posted on 03/01/2006 at 15:22 by Damien

	2006 will be a stepping stone year for Intel with the release of the multimedia platform ViiV and a new architecture of CPU. Intel will have to intensify the campaign to make the general public forget about the overplayed importance of MHz but also some logos like the famous Intel inside which is apparently about to disappear! A new logo officially unveiled yesterday replaces it: Intel Inside becomes Intel Leap Ahead. The police type and color have been slightly modified: