The processor wars Part III: Waiting for Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest?
Q&A with Nebojsa Novakovic
To the outside observer, improvements in
PC architecture are evolutionary but logical. Processors advance inevitably
in speed and performance, in happy accordance with Moore's Law. For Nebojsa
Novakovic, a consultant in high-end computing systems, that's hardly the
case. The demise of the DEC Alpha processor is a case in point. A
performance leader was killed off by corporate whim.
iSuppli upgrades DRAM market rating, but remains cautious
With DRAM prices rebounding from their fourth-quarter lows, iSuppli
has upgraded its rating of near-term market conditions for suppliers to
“neutral,” up from the “negative” assessment it has maintained since
October.
First-tier motherboard expect shipment growth of 22% in 2006
Taiwan first-tier motherboard makers – Asustek Computer, Elitegroup
Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI)
– expect to ship a combined 128 million motherboards in 2006, up 22% from
the
estimated 104.86 million they shipped last year, according to the
companies.
