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Monday March 29, 2004

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Intel LGA775 Delayed?

Digitimes is reporting that we may not see the new packaging for the Pentium 4 until some of the older stock is moved through the channel as 90nm ramps up over 130nm production, which of course makes perfect sense.

Despite the appearance at CeBIT of motherboards supporting the LGA775 socket T Pentium 4 processors, sources at Taiwan’s PC makers are claiming that the new 90nm chips will be generally available in June, rather than as originally scheduled in May.

The delay will give Intel more time to migrate its 0.13-micron process technology to 90nm and enable the launch to coincide with the chipmaker’s plans to employ a new numbering scheme for its processors beginning at the end of the second quarter, said the sources.

EVoting Bad:

E-Voting has been in a lot of headlines lately and Wired has taken a good overall look at how exactly it could impact the world we live in.

Harris posted the information about Hagel to her publicity website, and ES&S sent her a cease-and-desist letter, the first of three that she would receive from voting companies over the next year. The letter, hand-delivered by a courier, warned Harris to retract statements on her website that implicated Hagel in wrongdoing or face a lawsuit.

Google /.ed:

Google is different today, see what /.ers think.

ATI 9550 & 9550SE:

TheReg has their take on some new parts from ATI that will fill in between the 9200 and 9600 series. This will bring ATI top to bottom DX9 coverage I would assume. And there is always the chance that these could be some great enthusiast parts as well.

HardSpell offers a series of snaps of the chip mounted on an add-in card. According to the site, the 9550 is an under-clocked version of the Radeon 9600, running at 250MHz rather than 325MHz.

Posted by Kyle 8:40 AM (CST)