Op haaitje extreme hebben ze een roadmap gepost voor ''alle'' komende Intel CPU's en chipsets voor dit jaar en gedeeltelijk voor volgend jaar:
- Dropping CPU prices and rising speeds - A $754 Pentium III 1GHz in September with the 733MHz version costing a mere $193.
- Faster Celerons with SSE - While still using the old 66MHz FSB, all Celerons above 600MHz will come with SSE and their old, low prices.
- i815 and i815E - The new mid-range/low-end chipsets from Intel will add AGP expansion so you can replace the slow built-in Intel video with a quality fast 3D card.
- ICH2 - Integrated Controller Hub 2 brings ATA100, dual master USB (twice the bandwidth in total), integrated LAN and integrated audio to Intel's i815E and i820E.
- Timna Integration - Timna tacks a northbridge onto a Celeron's die to bring lower costs to budget systems.
- Transition to RDRAM - RDRAM will become more widespread, but SDRAM will be the standard for the mid-range and low-end for quite awhile. Prices will fall significantly by the end of the year, possibly to about twice the cost of SDR SDRAM. Price expectations do vary depending on your sources.
- Willamette and Tehama - Willamette and its chipset, Tehama, are coming for the end of the year. Speeds are expected to start at 1.3GHz. We hope Intel can deliver.
Eigenlijk niks nieuws dus maar altijd handig als alles even voor je wordt samengevat, of niet?