Intel to ship quad-core Core 2
Extreme in Q4
By Tony Smith
17th August 2006 10:21 GMT
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/17/intel_extreme_roadmap_aug_06/
Excerpts
...Intel roadmap data recently released to customers and now duly
popping up on the web reveals the chip giant's quad-core offering
'Kentsfield' will be clocked to 2.66GHz at launch.
The quad-core part will ship in Q4. It will run across a 1066MHz
frontside bus. If Intel runs true to form, it will be priced at
$999. But with AMD's rival 4x4 platform, which is due to ship later
this year for what AMD staff has said will be "substantially" under
$1,000, Intel may choose to price it lower.
The existing Core 2 Extreme X6800 will continue to be made
available through Q1 2007, but it may be replaced in Q2 2007.
®.."
Intel unveils
Q963-based mobo
By Tony Smith
21st August 2006 10:06 GMT
Excerpts
"..Intel has announced its first own-brand
motherboard based on its Q963 chipset and designed for Core 2 Duo processors, and the
shrinking number of Pentium D and Pentium 4 chips on the company's
desktop CPU list.
The Desktop Board DQ963FX supports a
1,066MHz frontside bus clock but will run at 533MHz for
older CPUs. The board has four memory slots capable of holding up
to 8GB of 667MHz DDR 2 SDRAM. The 963 is an integrated chipset, so
the board has its own GMA 3000 graphics engine. There are but three
PCI Express x1 slots and three old-style PCI slots.
...the board has Gigabit Ethernet courtesy of one of the company's
own 82566DC controller chips, and 5.1-channel audio, driven by a
SigmaTel STAC9227 codec. The board has
ten USB 2.0 ports, four SATA interfaces and a single parallel ATA
interface. There are the usual legacy ports too. ®
Dell to ship more than 3m AMD-based PCs
by year's end?
By Tony Smith
21st August 2006 09:39 GMT
Excerpts
"...Dell has asked AMD to send it more than 3m desktop and notebook
microprocessors, a number of financial analysts have separately
claimed. The total is split down the middle between desktop and
notebook CPUs, and represents Dell's demand through to the end of
the year.
The desktop figure comes from Bank of America, which last week told
investors it believes the PC giant has requested 1-1.2m desktop
processors and a further 800,000 mobile chips. Soon after,
Citigroup Research said it believes Dell has ordered the best part
of 2m notebook processors alone.
The Citigroup reports points to AMD-based Dell notebooks arriving
in September, with the first two models being joined by two more in
October, doubling shipments to 400,000-600,000 a month for October,
November and December.
The upshot: Dell will have shipped 1.2-1.8m AMD-based notebooks in
Q4, and 1.4-2.0m for the year as a whole - ie. Q4 plus September.
However many AMD-based notebooks Dell ships, half of them will be
new sales for AMD, the rest will be balanced by reduced sales to
AMD's other customers, the researcher forecast.
The new sales will push AMD's mobile processor shipment up 30 per
cent quarter on quarter, Citigroup predicted.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/21/dell_amd_pc_shipments_2006/
Infineon blags big RFID US passport
deal
Data transfer safe, firm reckons
By INQUIRER staff: Monday 21 August 2006, 09:32
GERMAN FIRM Infineon said that the US
government has given it a multi million dollar deal to produce ID
chips for use in domestic passports.
The passports will contain a chip with shielding which contains an
encrypted version of a human's name, date of birth, photo and the
validity period of the passport.
All new passports issued by the end of the year will be electronic
passports, said Infineon, which is also supplying similar
technology to other countries. All countries part of the US visa
waiver programme must issue passports using secure chip tech by
October this year.
Data transmission is 10 centimetres, and the chips include Basic
Access Control (BAC) which lets immigration officers pass the
passport over an electronic scanner. Infineon claims the active
protective shields on the chip's surface and sensors "help prevent"
crooks and passport blaggers from reading the data.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33810