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3/11/2001: Pentium III has not died... at least in the dual area

    The numerous debts of the chipsets for servants Athlon multiprocessor, already almost of one year, force the manufacturers to keep on trusting exclusively for these tasks in veteran and trustworthy Pentium III. In this context, MSI announces his new dual badge, which support for 2 processors Pentium III FC-PGA complements with 4 grooves DIMM where to place up to 2 GB of memory SDRAM PC133 (more that sufficient for most of servants).
    The badge, call 694D Master's degrees, is provided also with 5 grooves PCI, 1 groove CNR and 1 groove AGP Pro Universal. Along with these we find the connectors of the checkers of discs: on the one hand, It Ultraties 100, for the devices IDE. And for the most professional end we have neither more nor less than a checker SCSI Adaptec Ultra160, with a band of up to 160 Mb / century Also, rely on with 4 ports USB (2 integrated ones and other 2 as optional expansion).
    To improve the quality of the product, this one is provided with additional characteristics and proper technologies of MSI, as it is the case of Fuzzy Logic 3, which allows to recover automatically the computer of overclockings "bankrupts", Live BIOS that allows to update the BIOS easily from Internet and without going out of the operating system, and D-LED, 4 leds that help to diagnose the possible problems of the motherboard, to complement to the already habitual applications of monitoring of temperatures and fans.
    And the most interesting thing is that ROUTE is based on the last review of the chipset 694XDP (the 133rd dual version of Apollo Pro), with a quite reasonable yield at a price much more accessible than the chipsets Intel with dual support.

More information in:
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AMD shows (but it does not throw) the DUAL Athlon
The first chipset ROUTE with dual support for Pentium III

News written for: Miquel Tarazona

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Apple presents his new Power Mac G4 with SuperDrive
Good news for the Macintosh users (and those of PC...?)
Avalanche of innovations Apple in hardware and software
Apple might gain access to thousands of free applications
Computers Apple Macintosh with hardware PC?? AND PC with Mac OS??
Apple moves: Mac OS X Beta, new portable, ATI Radeon...

News written for: Ignacio Jiménez of the Ship

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3/8/2001: NVIDIA improves (and it deteriorates) the chip GeForce2 MX

    The GeForce2 MX, one of the most successful graphic chips of NVIDIA and probably that of better relation quality / price of at present to the sale, has just been renewed with the introduction of two new models.
    The first one of them is the GeForce2 MX 400, an improved version that increases lightly the speed of clock of the GPU from 175 MHz of the GeForce2 original MX to 200 MHz, using memory SDRAM with a breadth of 128 bits (also slightly more rapid, typically to 183 MHz) or memory DDR-SDRAM with a breadth of 64 bits.
    Nevertheless, another new model, the GeForce2 MX 200, turns out to be slightly advisable, since it is identical to the GeForce2 original MX (GPU to 175 MHz and memory SDRAM to 166 MHz) but with a breadth of bus of memory of only 64 bits, what limits his band to the half, scarcely 1,3 GB / century Undoubtedly is destined for the lowest market segment, to substitute the current one TNT2 M64 (that also is a cut away version of the original TNT2).
    As "I warn for navigators", we want to remember that in the chips of the family GeForce normally the memory band (determined by his speed and breadth of bus) turns out to be much more important than the speed of the proper GPU...

More information in:
www.nvidia.com/Pages.nsf/pages/pr_030601
www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/GF2family.html
www.digit-life.com/news.html#983944719
NVIDIA acquires 3dfx!!
The first videocards GeForce2 MX
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX: potency GeForce for all the publics

News written for: Juan Herrerías

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The first analyses independent from the chip GeForce3 definitive
More details on the NVIDIA GeForce3
NVIDIA attacks in the professional segment
NVIDIA acquires 3dfx!!
Graphic card 3D Blaster GeForce2 Ultra

News written for: Ignacio Jiménez of the Ship

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3/6/2001: ROUTE also sponsors "his" memory, the DDR

    ROUTE is not ready to that Intel makes the memory RDRAM triumph thanks to his agreements with manufacturers and his commercial promotions, so in an originality access he has decided that also ROUTE will offer itself memory at good price with every chipset; memory DDR-SDRAM, of course. It seems that it will be a 1 128 MB module ... let's wait that of PC2100, for the type of more rapid DDR.
    The first manufacturers of memory benefited with this offer are an Apacer, Nanya and Micron, three most important Allied Forces for quality and capacity of manufacture, although perhaps there will no be only ones. Recently Nanya was making a public that his yields (the percentage of chips that qualify in factory as correct) of chips DDR-SDRAM already overcomes 80 %, what implies that the costs will go down quickly.
    Bad matter for Intel, since ROUTE has three big advantages on them: the memory DDR-SDRAM is in origin cheaper than the RDRAM, so this offer costs them less; it is not necessary to them to convince the manufacturers so that they make it, since these already prefer it... and also ROUTE has no puttings all his hopes in a mike, the Pentium 4, which presently can only use RDRAM.

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ebnonline.com/digest/story/OEG20010305S0060
ebnonline.com/digest/story/OEG20010226S0063
www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010305S0087
Intel sponsors the RDRAM... while he designs chipsets for the DDR-SDRAM
Apacer and IBM work together to the advantage of the DDR
Already in manufacture the chipset DDR of ROUTE for Athlon
Micron offers memory DDR at SDRAM price
ROUTE presents his chipsets for 266 MHz DDR-SDRAM 

News written for: Juan Herrerías