The 8 ms BenQ screen released sooner 90 nm Celeron processors Pentium 4 6xx : 2 Mb cache Three LCD manufacturers in venture Demonstration of four Dual Core Opteron

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The 8 ms BenQ screen released sooner   Posted on 31/08/2004 at 17:27 by Vincent

	The FP71E+ official release date has been announced. This 8ms 17” LCD characteristics will be: contrast ratio 600 : 1, brightness 300 cd/m². The only difference compared to yesterday’s news is the release date. According to the press release, the official launch date is early September. We are waiting…

90 nm Celeron processors   Posted on 31/08/2004 at 16:27 by Marc

	With the 90nm fabrication process the Pentium M doubled its cache L2 from 1 to 2 MB. The new Celerons can now benefits from the same innovation. The new Celeron M 350 and 360 (1.3 and 1.4 GHz) have 1 MB of cache L2 instead of 512 Kb for the previous generations. - Celeron M 360 (1024k L2, 1.40 GHz, FSB400, 90nm) : $134 - Celeron M 350 (1024k L2, 1.30 GHz, FSB400, 90nm) : $107 - Celeron M 340 (512k L2, 1.50 GHz, FSB400, 130nm) : $134 - Celeron M 330 (512k L2, 1.40 GHz, FSB400, 130nm) : $107 Compared to the previous price list, August 22, it is possible to notice that the new processors prices are identical to the previous processors prices with 100 MHz lower frequencies. As an indication, the Pentium M 715 1.5 GHz 2MB cache L2 price is $209.

Pentium 4 6xx : 2 Mb cache   Posted on 31/08/2004 at 16:16 by Marc - source: X86-secret

	Intel should release during the first semester a new Pentium 4 LGA775 series, the Pentium 4 6xx. Compared to the current Pentium 4 series 5xx, these processors have 2 MB of cache L2 and have the Intel SpeedStep Technology for energy saving. The 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 and 3.8 GHz versions will be called respectively 640, 650, 660 and 670. We also noticed that the increment step is still 100 compared to the “standard” Pentium 4 (the P4 3.2 GHz LGA775 name is 540). Unlike the Pentium 4 720 3.73 GHz expected in the last quarter 2004 and using the FSB1066, the Pentium 4 6xx will use the FSB800.

Three LCD manufacturers in venture   Posted on 31/08/2004 at 12:29 by Vincent - source: Reuters

	A new giant LCD manufacturer has been created: Hitachi (50 %), Matsushita and Toshiba are forming an alliance to compete with Sharp, AU Optronics, CMO and Samsung. The factory will start producing 6th generation panels from September 2006. LCD panels dimensions produced will be 1.5m x 1.8m. These panels will be cut into six pieces to produce six 32” flat LCD TV. The biggest LCD panels produced by current 5th generation factories are 1.25m x 1.1m wide. This venture target is to keep up with the LCD displays demand, mainly for TVs. Manufacturers are planning to sell 9.5 millions of LCD TVs this year and reach 56 millions units in 2008 (DisplaySearch estimation).

Demonstration of four Dual Core Opteron   Posted on 31/08/2004 at 11:45 by Marc

	AMD announced that they have made the demonstration in their Austin office of an HP Proliant DL585 server equipped with four Opteron dual core processors, equivalent to eight similar processors. These 90 nm processors should be released mi-2005 and will be compatible with the Socket 940. The desktops versions are expected during the second half. But for some strange reasons AMD hasn’t specified the socket of this processor. Each core in the AMD Opteron Dual Core processor has one MB cache L2, the memory and hypertransports controllers are used by the two core. AMD specified that the processors are compatible with the current Socket 940 for standard 90 nm AMD processors. For the demonstration a simple bios update was required.