Testing 12 Athlon 64s Samsung reach 8ms Intel Board Elects Paul Otellini Intel CEO ATI Radeon X850 Sound Blaster Zenith

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Testing 12 Athlon 64s   Posted on 12/11/2004 at 16:59 by Marc

	Socket 754 ? 939 ? 130nm and 90nm fabrication process? This test is for those who are lost in AMD’s line of products. Here is a comparative test of 16 processors including 12 Athlon 64s. The P-Rating is sometimes just the tip of the iceberg. > Testing 12 Athlon 64s

Samsung reach 8ms   Posted on 12/11/2004 at 10:39 by Vincent

	All panels’ manufacturers are trying to produce “the fastest panel in the world”. The current main criterion is the response time, and you already know that this information isn’t actually the only one to take in account to buy your screen. In our tests we showed that it can be sometime highly misleading. However, the news today is that Samsung will release in December in Germany a 19” LCD screen equipped with a 8ms panel: the 913N. We don’t know yet the availability for the rest of the world and it price for the US (European price 500€).

Intel Board Elects Paul Otellini Intel CEO   Posted on 12/11/2004 at 10:32 by Marc

	Intel today announced that its board of directors has elected Paul S. Otellini, currently president and chief operating officer (COO), as its next chief executive officer (CEO). Otellini, 54, will succeed Craig R. Barrett. Otellini received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco in 1972, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. He joined Intel in 1974 and has served as president and COO since January 2002. He was elected to the board of directors in 2002. Since joining Intel, Otellini has held a number of positions, including general manager of the company's chipset business and later serving as an assistant to then-Intel president Andy Grove in 1989. Unlike others Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini doesn’t have a scientific background.

ATI Radeon X850   Posted on 12/11/2004 at 09:46 by Marc

	The day before yesterday, we wrote spoke of the R480, a new version of the current X800. We have today more information on this subject coming from K-Hardware. Frequencies are confirmed but the fabrication process proved false. K-Hardware announces 130 nm like the current X800. The R480 sales name should be X850, and the following declinations are announced : - Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition : 16 pipelines, 540/590 MHz, $499 - Radeon X850 XT : 16 pipelines, 520/540 MHz, $449 - Radeon X850 : 12 pipelines, 520/540 MHz, $399 These chips will be released next December but mass production should really start in January. The R430 should finally have a 110 nm fabrication process and will be released end of January early February. These chip performances should be between the X700 and the X850 and should logically be called X750.

Sound Blaster Zenith   Posted on 12/11/2004 at 09:35 by Marc

	According to VR-Zone, Creative should release in a few months a new generation of chips. Called Zenith, this chip would replace the current Audigy and will have a PCI Express interface. For now this chip’s functionalities, expected in March 2005, are still unknown.