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 FireWire
and USB 2.0 on a Collision Course? by
Denise Harrison
It wasn’t long ago pundits
predicted the death of FireWire/IEEE1394. They claimed FireWire buzz had
cooled and the upcoming USB 2.0 and that Serial ATA would rule the world
of connectivity. The 1394 protocol may be shifting direction a bit, but
it’s alive and well and living in increasing numbers of devices and turning
up in some surprising arenas. more
 Intel's
820 Chipset/SDRAM Woes: More details on the
Intel Memory Translator Hub (MTH) Reboot Issue
May 2000
Intel
Corporation has announced that it will replace motherboards that have
a defective memory translator hub (MTH) component that translates signals
from SDRAM memory to the Intel 820 Chipset. The company has found some
boards using the MTH (memory translator hub) may be sensitive to system
noise under extreme conditions, and this issue may manifest itself in
intermittent system reboots or system hangs during operation. This noise
sensitivity may result in data loss and/or corruption. Intel will also
replace the current SDRAM memory in the affected systems with Rambus RDRAM
as part of the remedy. more
DDR
vs. Dual Channel RDRAM: An Exhaustive Performance
Analysis of Intel’s 840+RDRAM vs. Micron’s DDR Reference Platform, by
Bert McComas, InQuest
Market Research, April, 2000 Update
Since its introduction in September 1999,
Direct Rambus has been cursed with high prices, low availability, technical
troubles and questionable performance. As Intel’s primary RDRAM platform,
the 820 chip set has similarly fallen under widespread criticism in the
media and on the web. In the channel, system and board makers are reporting
an inventory buildup of these hard to sell 820 platforms. With the 820
chip set on the ropes, PC133 enters the mainstream almost entirely uncontested.
Even Intel’s contrived resistance to PC133 is scheduled to disappear shortly
with the introduction of Solano (815). more
The
CPU Explained: From Sand to Chip, by
Armin Gerritsen
How
is a CPU created?
It
is quite a miracle how from a pile of sand engineers are able to create
something as complicated as a processor chip like the AMD Athlon or the
Intel Pentium III. Many steps are needed to create such a device. This
article will try to explain how a chip is build from sand to silicon.
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DDR
vs. Rambus: A Hands-on Performance Comparison
from InQuest Market Research, by
Bert McComas
With
the long anticipated release of Intel's new 820 chip set, the world has
its first opportunity to evaluate the system level performance impact
of DRDRAM. Until now, publicly available performance reports on DRDRAM
have compared Rambus to PC100 or PC133 SDRAM. more
 The
Intel Coppermine Round-Up: Which Chip is Which? For Who? And Why?:
What the new Pentium IIIs mean to the DCC Workstation market, by Jacqui
Dawson
A look at the technology behind the new chips
as well as the workstation, desktop, and notebook products being introduced
on the heels of the Intel announcement.more
 Workstation-Class
Graphics Technology: JPA Study Finds Market Far From Mature; Uneven
Growth Rate of 15.6 % Over Next Five Years, by Jacqui Dawson
Jon Peddie Associates (JPA), the leading
market research firm covering digital media technology, recently presented
their latest market analysis - the "NT 3D Graphics Workstation Market
Study 1999". This comprehensive study finds the workstation-class graphics
controller market will grow by just 15.6% over the next five years. By
2004, worldwide, the market will net $2 billion dollars for 1.7 million
units shipped. However during those five years, there will be an uneven
unit growth rate due to several factors. more
 USB
Technology Enters Ubiquity — Here's Some Reasons Why...
Find out why USB has become so popular, how its speed compares to other
peripheral technologies, what the difference is between USB and FireWire
1394, what's next for USB, and what kind of system you need to use it,
by Jacqui Dawson
The
Universal Serial Bus (USB) specification, a standardized peripheral connection
developed by Intel with other industry leaders, supports multiple device
connectivity, improves the performance of the PC peripheral connection
and allows for digital multimedia integration. USB, a synchronous protocol
that supports isochronous and asynchronous data and messaging transfers,
allows expandability of the PC's capabilities via an external port, eliminating
the need for users or integrators to open the system chassis.
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