[H]ardNews 2nd Edition

Intel Model Numbers:

Following a posting on a Chinese website last week, AnandTech now follows suit and posts what they are told will be the new Intel model numbering scheme.

One does beg to question what Intel's strategy is once/if speeds get up into the 4.6GHz range. Either this is not a very forward looking nomenclature, or Intel has some other ace up their sleeve.

I find it very interesting that Intel has designated their low-end Celeron with the same "3" series that AMD uses for their mainstream parts. Mistake? I don't think so.

Spammer's Boxster:

I saw on TheScreenSavers last night that AOL was going to auction off a Porsche Boxster that had been obtained in a settlement with a spammer that AOL had a lawsuit with.

AOL obtained the car in settling a lawsuit against "a guy who by our estimates made more than a million dollars from spamming," said Randall Boe, AOL executive vice president and general counsel.

This beckons the question, "If you had a million spam bucks, would you buy a Boxster?"

NV40 Cooling Rumors:

TheInq's Fuad wags his tongue the way of the new NVIDIA NV40 technology one more time...but I am sure it is not the last.

Our friend confirms that NV40 is going to be a two-slot card, but it won't be noisy one, we're assured. Nvidia will use a similar approach as it used with its NV38, Geforce FX 5950 Ultra card; that was a two-slot solution as a reference design. But we heard that this time around it won't be so easy to modify the cooling to get such a fat card into a single PC slot.

NVIDIA's own pages exclaim that they are having the usual suspects out for an "Analyst Day" on 4/1/2004. And don't forget that they have also announced that they will be having a LAN Party to launch their "next gen" part as well on the 13th of April. Guess they got tired of the leaks and figured they might as well do it themselves.

IBM Amends Suit:

IBM has amended its counterclaim with a Declaratory Judgment action against SCO looking for a resolution to the current Linux lawsuit that is pending.

By seeking a declaratory judgement, which a judge could issue as soon as the discovery process is over and before the case goes to trial, IBM appears to be indicating that has conducted an internal analysis of SCO's claims and has found them to be without merit, said Jeff Norman, an intellectual property partner with the Chicago law firm Kirkland Ellis LLP.

This is basically the same thing HardOCP has done with Infinium Labs.

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