NVIDIA seems very unhappy with Intel, not only showed us upgrading CPU is useless and even hinted Intel’s upcoming graphic solution Larrabee will be a vaporware:
“Larabee is a PowerPoint slide,I haven’t met a product on my PowerPoint slide that I don’t like. You know, they’re floating Larrabee out there just to put a shadow over us, cast a cloud over us. They’ve already slipped it two years from the time they talked about. They would love to slip it another four years and leave a cloud over me.” (NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, CNET interview)
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We got infos from our sources that several CPU will become EOLed in few months, because new products have been launched, and they are no longer meet the needs of Intel’s strategic. These CPU not only Pamtium and Core 2 Duo, but also includes two Core 2 Extreme processors.
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PDN: Production Discontinue Notice
EOL: End Of Lifecycle
Intel’s new main stream chipset P45 will be officially announce in ComputeX this year. And the mobo will also come out soon. But the launch of P45 means P35 will finally facing EOL.
From Info we gathered, we know though P35 and P45 do not have much differences, but after P45’s launch, P35 will still last long enough to Nov.08. It will going EOLed at the end of this year. it is a little later than expected.
As we known, Intel’s next gen processor will be Nehalem, and desktop Nehalem will be Bloomfield. It is a 45nm process technology 4 core CPU, integrated with memory controller, SMT (Simultaneous Multi-threading) up to 8 processing threads, and w/ 8M cache. It has been revealed in IDF 08, but at that time no the supporting mobo is still being kept in secret.
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MSI have already post one P45 with loads of heatpipe, but this time they are going further, prepared a water block on the chipset. The design reminds us lots of ASUS boards. All these pics are from HKEPC.
Different from ASUS, MSI using flashion acrylic as part of the water block.
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Intel informed its partner someday earlier, stating if users have already install some out-dated intel graphic driver, may crash by resume from hibernation after having installed service pack 1.
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As an mid-end product, Intel‘s Core 2 Duo E7300 will facing its rival, AMD’s Phenom X3 8600 in the near future. So who will win the up-coming mid range war? China-based website IT168.com has posted an comparison review, featuring E7200, E7300, and a Phenom X3 8600.The full review is here, and here is our highlights.
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What’s Intel Atom? Intel’s Atom is a basic moblie platform, including N270 CPU and 945GSE/ICH-7M chipset. N270 is a 1.60GHz/533MHz/512K L2 cache/Single Core/2 Threads small CPU. They developing under codename Diamondville.
What can Intel’s Atom do? According to Noury Al-Khaledy Intel’s manager of Atom division, the platform can let you surfing on net, or playing normal movies. Don’t expect the platform can have much power, it is only a 1.6GHz 512K L2 thingy. The small platform can run Win Vista Starter, WinXP, and Linux.
What intel gonna do is to make it a ultra mobile nettop, and make lots of money from it. According to PCGH, the price ranged from 199USD to 250USD.
Intel try to put G45 and a Quad CPU into a mini-ITX box. According to sources, Intel not only unleashing their Atom CPU and Centrino Atom platform, they also planning for a nimi-ITX G45 called DG45FC, FC for “Flying Creek”.
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March 6th, 2008 by Jeff Intel
Today XbitLab released a comparison of AMD/Intel dual core processors. The article is mainly focus on CPU’s price and performance, also the article shows the 45nm Wolfdale is quite powerful. Here is some highlights:
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HardwareSecrets post some detailed infomation about the crazy Foxconn F1 prototype mobo. The data and pics are all taken from CES 2008.
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So it seems Ncc-1709 in Xtremesystem got a QX9650 all four cores working on a EVGA 680i. And it even can be further overclocked. The CPU-Z validation proof is here, and the main thread is here.
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Finally, Wolfdale hits the market of east asia in January 20. They are E8200, E8400 and E8500.Click here to read our E8400 review.
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