Intel heeft tegenover Computex de geruchten dat ze aan een Pentium 4 chipset met PC133 SDRAM werken bevestigd. De chipset krijgt de naam 'Brookdale'. Er zullen twee versies van de Brookdale op de markt komen, een met gewoon SDRAM en een met DDR-SDRAM. De moet in het derde kwartaal van 2001 in de winkels liggen.
Taiwan's computer makers were informed by Intel Corp., that versions of its new "Brookdale" chipset -- the first to support non-Rambus-standard memory on the Pentium 4 processor -- will be compatible with two other types of memory chips, local media reported yesterday, citing unidentified local motherboard makers.
Intel will introduce the Brookdale in the third quarter next year. Versions of the Brookdale chipset, managing the data flow between a processor and other computer components, will work with Intel's Pentium 4 processor and support PC-133 synchronous dynamic random access and faster double data rate memory chips. Intel on Wednesday ended its endorsement of a memory designed by US-based Rambus Inc as the only standard to be used with its Pentium 4 processor, scheduled for release later this year. The world's largest chipmaker said it would design a Pentium 4 chipset to work with SDRAM memory.
