(CNET) Sources said Tuesday that Taiwan's Silicon Integrated Systems will come out with a chipset that allows PC makers to connect Pentium 4 processors with Rambus-based memory. The advent of a second manufacturer could give a boost to controversial chip designer Rambus by increasing the availability of such chipsets and thus helping lower the price of building computers with Rambus memory. Until September, expensive Rambus-based memory was the only RAM that could be used with Pentium 4s. A lower-cost alternative has since given Rambus a run for its money. An SIS representative wrote in an e-mail Tuesday that SIS has a plan to "support Rambus" but declined to comment further or discuss specific product plans. SIS has already announced plans to come out with a chipset that connects Pentium 4s to less expensive, non-Rambus memory.
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(CNET) Sharp Systems of America, the U.S. division of the Japanese notebook giant, is incorporating an ultra-low voltage 600MHz Pentium III processor from Intel into its PC-UM20 and PC-UM10 mini-notebooks because of customer demand, a company representative said Tuesday.
"Our corporate clients just demand Intel," the representative said, adding that no plans exist to bring a Transmeta-based notebook to the United States.
Sharp's decision will likely be seen as a setback to Transmeta, which has been battling with Intel over design wins in notebooks for nearly two years. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip designer has been trying to encourage its manufacturing partners to bring notebooks containing its Crusoe chip to Europe and the United States.
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(Press Release) Adaptec, Inc. has announced that it has staged the first public demonstration of an Ultra320 RAID controller with Ultra320 disk drives. Ultra320 SCSI doubles the speed of current SCSI connections to meet the faster transfer rates of today's disk drives and PCI-X buses. The demonstration to resellers in Milpitas consisted of a RAID 5 array with five of Maxtor Corporation's 73-gigabyte Atlas 10K III Ultra320 disk drives connected to a two-channel Adaptec Ultra320 RAID controller transferring data streams of several movie trailers displayed on a monitor. Data flowed at 320 megabytes per second across the SCSI bus, demonstrating the compatibility of Adaptec and Maxtor products at this new speed.
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(ZDNET) Compaq Computer is getting aggressive in the giveaway game. On Tuesday, the PC maker launched a new promotion: Buy an Evo notebook, an Evo desktop or an Armada notebook and get a Compaq iPaq 3650 handheld for free. The handheld, which has a color screen and 32MB of memory, sells for $399 on Compaq's Web site.
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