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I don't think VIA is an option either. VIA bought Cyrix and partnered with NatSemi, hoping to win the legal battle with Intel, but the x86 license with NatSemi wasn't transferrable. Also, the license is usually exclusive - if the company is sold, then the license is void. I'm not sure about...

Rise didn't have one either. SGS Thomson had a cross license agreement with Intel and fabbed for Rise. Therefore, that arrangement was okay.

SiS never had one.

Funny you should ask. Look at last quarter's financial results for INTC and NVDA. Which company took one hell of a nosedive when the economy is tough and consumers have to make a real choice between hardware components. Hint: It wasn't INTC.

Shouldn't this be a simple case? Why are there so many posts about SLI and x86? :confused: Either Nvidia has a QPI license or it doesn't. Intel's legal department isn't stupid. When they reviewed the NVDA/lNTC cross-licensing agreement in back in 2004, you can bet your ass they...

No, these new Chips don't expire.

Anybody else receive their Dark Knight training pack? Get a T-shirt other than Iron Man?

Nothing here either. I know someone that ordered very early got their Plantronics headset recently.

The Dothan in the 701 is far hotter than any Atom.

Great prices, but at the same time, it's sad. AMD's top-of-the-line quad is cheaper than Intel's bottom-barrel Q6600.

Sort of. SLI will still require the nForce 200 chip. Basically, the press release is nVidia saying "We can't make a chipset for Nehalem with SLI because we weren't able to twist Intel's arm to give us a QPI license in exchange for SLI. Quite frankly, we need Intel more than they need us. To...

Unbelievable numbers there. Seems like AMD's response will be much like 2006: Just hang a bag on the side of their old microarchitecture, apply tape, and hope for the best.

Uh, no. AMD is having trouble getting enough money to pay for operating expenses as it is. They already sidetracked with ATI, and are still trying to navigate their way out of that minefield. 2008 is about restructuring and coming up with a good cost-reduction plan - not playing with...

That Tylersberg Reference Board Design slide from HKEPC is no longer valid. Initially, Intel decided to disable the IMC for Bloomfield and use an external memory controller due to yield and clock concerns.

It's there to provide additional PCIe lanes. ICH10 alone cannot provide 2x16 for graphics.

E-mail yourself with the wishlist, then post the link.

Has he even looked at Q9300/Q9450 benchmarks? Even with Phenom overclocked to 3 GHz, the difference is still as a big as a gulf.

Core HT Core AVX Core QP Perhaps to describe the new features available in Nehalem.

Those AMD processors draw too much power: 125W+.

I'd love to hear a rational explanation from the people ordering this. Price, performance, power, availability. The Q6600 beats this by every metric.

Actually, that role belongs to the Q6600. The price will drop to $224 in late April. Q9300 performs better than Q6600 and it'll take the famed $266 spot.

Official price for Q9300 is $266, exactly the same as Q6600. If you look at performance, the Q9300 beats the Q6600 in every respect.

You're paying for that "Caution" sticker.

Take the deal. We're only offering this free swap for 50 customers.

Just don't do it. The Corsair 750TX can be had for under $145. And down to $110 if you do the MIR. Don't do it.

Simple. This chip *isn't* for the short term. Dunnington is for MP. Intel's MP roadmap is always the last to transition to the new microarchitecture. Look at when Tulsa and Tigerton were released. It's going to be well into 2009 before Nehalem reaches MP territory. Hence the need for 6-core...

It's a 9500 for sure. 9550 samples aren't due until March.

According to HKEPC, B3 stepping has been pushed from Q1 to Q2. To reflect the change in stepping, AMD will name these "new" processors as 9x50 (i.e. 9550 and 9650). Anyone else find this funny? Fixing a performance-robbing bug to restore the CPU's original performance deserves a higher model...

Maybe someone from Newegg could chime in with some numbers.... But as an NCIX employee in Canada, let me put it this way: The last time I checked, we had around 1k Q6600 processors in our warehouse. At the same time, we only stocked thirty or fourty-something 9500s.

B3 is the microcode patch version. You'll see the same thing if you download the Intel Processor Identification Utility.

This is more evidence to support what most people have suspected - Barcelona is a poor processor for the consumer segment. Right now, chipsets and steppings are the scapegoat. Later, it'll be motherboards and BIOSes. Eventually, it'll be "wait for 45nm Shanghai." It reminds me of the...

http://www.howardelectronics.com/virtual/products.html http://www.excelta.com/marketplace/browse.asp?category=377 It is indeed the proper way to do it.

4 MB cache, sans 1333 MHz FSB

Strange how AMD's top performers are still 90nm....

This goes hand in hand with the recent interview with Intel's Mooly Eden. http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33958/136/

That line of data comes from the BIOS. If it indicates unknown, it means the BIOS isn't properly recognizing the processor... a BIOS update may help.

P35 and newer boards should support all 45nm products. Many P965 boards also support 45nm according to manufacturers, but it's unclear whether those support Yorkfield.

Now official. Say hello to Toliman and Heka. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~120741,00.html

You gotta love how this PR was released on the same day as Barcelona's launch. It really punctuates Intel's benchmark of shipping more than a million quad-cores before AMD ships their first.

No, the socket is the same for all mobile processors - Socket M. Socket M has 479 holes and all mobile processors whether P4-M or Pentium/Celeron M can be installed. All mobile processors have 478 pins - but the arrangement of these pins is what makes it possible to only install in a...