Month: May 2002

Which Way Will Memory Pricing Go? Spot memory prices have been heading downward. For people like us, that’s good. Very briefly, the memory market has two components. The vast majority of production gets sold to big clients at contract prices.

On May 20th, Intel is supposed to formally introduce some new PIV DDR chipsets, children of the current 845D chipset: the 845E, the 845G, and the 845GL. They all share the “official” ability to run a 133Mhz FSB. How are

Over the past few years, Intel occasionally has had a speed grade or two that have been represented by two quite different processors. For instance, right now, there is a 2.0GHz PIV processor, which is made using a 0.l8 micron

Intel is now converting all PIV processors over to this “optical shrink.” To put it simply, it’s not a stepping increase, but rather drawing the current design lines a little more closely together. This will shrink the area of the

Among other things, I’m looking for some new hard drives. I’m particularly looking at the Western Digital drives with 8Mb cache. There’s only one problem: What am I going to do with all that space? (OK, I can buy the

There’s a bunch of reviews about the 133Mhz PIVs out there; I’m sure you can find them. You’ll see the XP getting consistently beaten; sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot. That in and of itself is unimportant. It’s