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AMD Thoroughbred In June?
XBits Reports :
AMD Thoroughbred is based on the new 0.13micron core will be fully compatible with the current Socket A mainboards. The processors themselves however, will be not any different in architecture from Palomino based ones. The L2 cache of Thoroughbred will remain equal to 256KB and the processor bus frequency will stay by 266MHz.
The official launch of Thoroughbred will take place only in the second half of June. The first Athlon XP on the new core will be marked as 2400+ and will have the actual clock frequency of 1.933GHz. Besides, there will also be slower Thoroughbred CPUs coming rated as 2000+ and 2200+, which will replace the existing Palomino models. AMD will release one more Athlon XP on the 0.18micron Palomino core in Q2?02. it will be Athlon XP 2200+ working at the actual frequency of 1.8GHz.
Source: XBits
DRAM Prices May Fall
DigiTimes Reports :
The recent serious shortage of 64Mbit SDRAM for low-end graphics cards is about to take a sharp turn in the opposite direction. Samsung and Hynix are poised to flood Taiwan with 64Mbit DRAM as they empty their inventories in preparation for replacing the product with 128Mbit DRAM. The move could threaten Taiwan?s DRAM prices. Samsung will reportedly throw an estimated one million 64Mbit DRAM chips into Taiwan?s market. Hynix did not release a precise estimate but claimed that its figure would rival Samsung?s.
The shortage of 64Mbit DRAM mainly stemmed from PC manufacturers preferring low-end graphics cards this quarter, as well as strong PC sales worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2001 relative to a year earlier. However, as the PC industry enters the traditional slow season, and as PC manufacturers upgrade to 128Mbit DRAM in graphics cards, Samsung and Hynix are also hurriedly clearing out their 64Mbit inventory, leaving Taiwan in danger of crashing DRAM prices. In the past few months, 64Mbit DRAM prices have shot up from less than US$1 to US$2.40-2.60 per chip. However, with the DRAM deluge from Samsung and Hynix hanging over Taiwan, DRAM suppliers predict that prices will fall to their original level of less than US$1 per chip.
