Month: July 2002

We haven’t seen a revision (official ones, anyway) to the lower-speed Northwoods since introduction. Now we’re going to see two, in rapid succession. B-O Shrink This change will reduce the size of the active part of the CPU down about

Positive Overall I got a lot of reaction on that article. About 60% of the responses elaborated on the theme “Thank God somebody said it.” About 25% of the responses elaborated on some technical theme they didn’t think I got

There’s a review of the SiS 648 here. This looks like a real launch, unlike the P4X333. There’s already one out there on Pricewatch. The pattern that you see in this review will very likely remain the same through the

Every once in a while, you hear rumors (which in this case constitutes contagious wishful thinking) that Apple is going to go x86. In the last couple years, these rumors have mostly involved Apple using AMD processors, and the wishful

In a sentence, Intel had a lousy quarter; AMD had a terrible one. You can hear the Intel conference call here; the AMD call here There’s not really a lot to say about Intel. Normally, you’d expect a 5% drop