Gigabyte Technology Posted by: Athlonxp on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 08:23 AM EST
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Giga-Byte Technology announced the GA-7DPXDW motherboard for the new AMD Athlon(tm) MP processor and the AMD-760(tm) MP multiprocessing chipset for one- and two-way servers and workstations. The AMD Athlon MP processor with Smart MP technology is the latest member of the AMD Athlon family of processors that offers unsurpassed x86 multiprocessing capability.
InfoHQ reports that Tyan has started to ship the new Tyan Thunder K7X. Quote: "Designed around the AMD-760(TM) MPX chipset, the Thunder K7X includes all of the performance benefits of its predecessor, and provides new levels of throughput for I/O-bound applications. With its 66MHz 64-bit PCI bus, the Thunder K7X can support up to two high-speed PCI devices such as Fibre Channel storage or Gigabit Ethernet controllers. With over 1 gigabyte per second of I/O headroom, the Thunder K7X is ideally suited for today's I/O-intensive server and workstation applications". Check out all the goodness here!
This story is shapping up to be the high tech soap opera of the year! A judge in Delaware, has decide to allow the case by Walter Hewlett filed against Hewlett-Packard to go to trial. The law suit filed by Hewlett basically accuses HP of buying off Deutsche Bank, a major HP shareholder in order to secure their vote in the Compaq/Hewlett-Packard merger.
The controversial Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act of 2002, introduced last month by Senator Ernest Hollings (D-South Carolina), requires manufacturers to make televisions, cable boxes, and PCs that can "prevent illegal copying or redistribution."
