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DDR3 sucks! Long live DDR2!

Written by t-readyroc
Thursday, 24 May 2007
TweakTown becomes the latest site to jump on the bandwagon of (rightfully?) bashing DDR3 in its current state (see the LegitReviews piece here). The sad fact is that, right now, DDR3 is too expensive, & doesn't offer much, if any of an improvement over DDR2. Hrmmm... where have we seen this before... oh right, the DDR>DDR2 transition that took place a scant year ago... I guess the real question is: will we be making the same types of comparisons twelve months from now between DDR3 & DDR4? Time will tell, kiddies, time will tell...

AMDs Puma platform to support both HDMI and DisplayPort

Written by t-readyroc
Friday, 18 May 2007
AMD's answering Santa Rosa with their Puma platform. They hope that this new mobile platform can compete with Intel's updated Centrino by using the first chip that AMD's designed from the ground up specifically for notebooks. "The chip set in Puma is where AMD gets its edge with features it is offering as much as six months before Intel. Puma supports the latest Microsoft DX10 graphics application programming interface, hardware support for H.264 for high definition DVD decode, 5 GHz PCI Express ports and both the HDMI and emerging DisplayPort interfaces."
Last Updated ( Friday, 18 May 2007 )

More megahertz for Barcelona

Written by t-readyroc

Monday, 07 May 2007

Looks like the new Barcelona cores will be 20% faster than expected at launch. Not very long until we see these chips at retail, & it looks like the latest stepping has been refined enough for a few hundred more megahertz. Promising...

"Another source claimed the memory controller, long a bottleneck in K8 scaling, came in way better than expected."

Intel's Geneseo: A watered-down Torrenza?

Written by t-readyroc
Friday, 20 April 2007
Intel's announced their Geneseo platform, which it hopes will compete with AMD's Torrenza. Both platorms are open in that third-party developers can design "accelerators" for them, however, AMD will be allowing full access to the Opteron socket itself, while Intel will only allow accelerators to be dropped into a PCIe slot. Of these two platforms, I think that Torrenza will definitely be the one to watch, as any third party hardware will have direct access to the HT bus, & therefore, the CPU itself.

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