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"Intel's 45nm CPUs might get here sooner than later
Sources inside Intel have confirmed the company recently received the taped-out 45nm Penryn processor. Reports from the ensuing champagne toast claim the first Penryn boot was capable of booting Windows.
Even though the processor is labeled as "A0" silicon, or first revision, the successful boot is a huge milestone and bonus for Intel. Reports of operational first-run tape-outs are few and far in-between, especially in the CPU industry.
Penryn, the 45nm optical-shrink of the Core architecture, was prepped for tape-out in late November, and returned to the Intel development team just a few weeks ago.
The early tape-out may even have beneficial consequences further down the line. Any early progress will pull the launch date in several weeks, though Intel has not publicaly stated a target date for launch. The latest Intel roadmaps claim Penryn is simply a "late 2007" processor."
Origional Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5657
Looks like AMD is going to be playing catch up to Intel for the next year or 2.
Sad really, I enjoyed the competition in the Pentium 3 coppermine days.
"First ATI Catalysts of the year
AMD has released the first set of ATI Catalyst drivers of 2007, bumping the new version number up to 7.1. The new drivers resolve issues with game titles Desperados 2, Rome: Total War, Sniper Elite and Splinter Cell Double Agent, as well as fixing the error when launching X-29 applications.
The new Catalysts also allow DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) for video playback when CrossFire mode is enabled.
There are still a small list of known issues affecting games Battlefield 2 and KOTOR II, and enabling CrossFire may still result in display corruption being noticed when playing a DVD or media clip using either WinDVD 7, Windows Media Player or PowerDVD 6. As with other recent ATI Catalyst driver releases, this version only supports AMD ATI Radeon 9500 and higher products including Radeon Xpress X1150 and 200 series chipsets.
The latest Catalysts are available for Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and Windows XP Professional x64."
Origional Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5679
Good news for ATI Radeon users, If you dont use Omega, or NGHO Modified drivers, Its a good time to update them.
I'm still waiting on a decent driver set from ATI and Nvidia for use with vista,
The beta drivers from both companies are buggy as Mc' Hell!
Sources inside Intel have confirmed the company recently received the taped-out 45nm Penryn processor. Reports from the ensuing champagne toast claim the first Penryn boot was capable of booting Windows.
Even though the processor is labeled as "A0" silicon, or first revision, the successful boot is a huge milestone and bonus for Intel. Reports of operational first-run tape-outs are few and far in-between, especially in the CPU industry.
Penryn, the 45nm optical-shrink of the Core architecture, was prepped for tape-out in late November, and returned to the Intel development team just a few weeks ago.
The early tape-out may even have beneficial consequences further down the line. Any early progress will pull the launch date in several weeks, though Intel has not publicaly stated a target date for launch. The latest Intel roadmaps claim Penryn is simply a "late 2007" processor."
Origional Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5657
Looks like AMD is going to be playing catch up to Intel for the next year or 2.
Sad really, I enjoyed the competition in the Pentium 3 coppermine days.
"First ATI Catalysts of the year
AMD has released the first set of ATI Catalyst drivers of 2007, bumping the new version number up to 7.1. The new drivers resolve issues with game titles Desperados 2, Rome: Total War, Sniper Elite and Splinter Cell Double Agent, as well as fixing the error when launching X-29 applications.
The new Catalysts also allow DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) for video playback when CrossFire mode is enabled.
There are still a small list of known issues affecting games Battlefield 2 and KOTOR II, and enabling CrossFire may still result in display corruption being noticed when playing a DVD or media clip using either WinDVD 7, Windows Media Player or PowerDVD 6. As with other recent ATI Catalyst driver releases, this version only supports AMD ATI Radeon 9500 and higher products including Radeon Xpress X1150 and 200 series chipsets.
The latest Catalysts are available for Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and Windows XP Professional x64."
Origional Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5679
Good news for ATI Radeon users, If you dont use Omega, or NGHO Modified drivers, Its a good time to update them.
I'm still waiting on a decent driver set from ATI and Nvidia for use with vista,
The beta drivers from both companies are buggy as Mc' Hell!