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Somebody has their facts mixed up: Alviso or 533MHz bus Dothan in September???

post #1 of 9
7/31/04 at 1:55am
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This is a very bizarre report.

Elitegroup pre-announces 2.13GHz Pentium M Friday 30th July 2004

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...either Alviso will ship in the autumn on its own and under the 'Centrino 1' brand, or Intel plans to update its current Centrino chipset, the i855GME to support a 533MHz FSB.
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Taiwan's Elitegroup has revealed that Intel is indeed planning to release a 2.13GHz Pentium M 770 processor this autumn - possibly as early as September 2004.

The 2.13GHz PM doesn't appear on Intel's price list yet, but is expected to ship as the PM 770. As the clock frequency indicates, the chip runs over a 533MHz frontside bus, and not the current 400MHz PM FSB.

That suggests the top-end G220 will also use Intel's upcoming 'Alviso' chipset, which is also expected to form the basis for the second-generation Centrino platform, 'Sonoma'.
The ECS G220 Press Release, says "Intel Pentium M (Dothan) 2MB L2 cache, FSB400MHz, 1.5GHz~2.13GHz".

Since their own specs say 400MHz, I can only guess they must mean it supports the 2.10GHz 765 which has a 400MHz FSB, rather than the 2.13GHz.

I don't think Intel is even supposed to release any new Dothans until October, so maybe ECS means they're releasing a model with future support for the faster 2.10GHz chip.

I think it's just shoddy reporting without checking the facts.
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post #2 of 9
7/31/04 at 1:57am
They have their facts all screwed up.
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post #3 of 9
7/31/04 at 3:15am
The Register used to be good about two years ago, while I was looking for my previous notebook. This year, while I waited for Dothan, it turned out to be sort of third-tier, reporting gossip obtained from other well-known sources inaccurately, or inventing rumours on its own. Sort of 33% reliable.
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post #4 of 9
7/31/04 at 12:16pm
Yeah, check the date (the filename, 060104, June 1st 2004) on that ECS press release. That was put up long before Intel delayed Alvisio and the new Dothans.
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post #5 of 9
7/31/04 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by Sharakkhal
Yeah, check the date (the filename, 060104, June 1st 2004) on that ECS press release. That was put up long before Intel delayed Alvisio and the new Dothans.
Well, actually the story is from yesterday. It says, "The PC maker this week announced..." and "The G220 will go on sale in September in the UK from Protac Direct Sales, Elitegroup said, but it did not disclose pricing."

I dug up that old press release on Google for reference. That was my link, not the Register's. I don't think that's what they were reporting.
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post #6 of 9
7/31/04 at 1:54pm
Yeah, but since it was announced 2 months ago, why would they announce it again? No new press releases on ECS's website from this week, either.

Just another reason to treat the inquirer like the enquirer, and not believe it. Maybe ECS secretly announced it to the inquirer alone?
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post #7 of 9
7/31/04 at 3:40pm
hmm interesting.. just so you know apparently intel is planning on shipping comoenents this before q1 2005 so they can count it was revenue.. just a thought.. dell or someone might have sonoma selling in q4 for christmas
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post #8 of 9
7/31/04 at 4:11pm
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I call BS, but what they're hinting at is that parts of the Alviso chipset (like 533MHz bus support) may trickle out into products before the full Sonoma package is released.

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Originally Posted by Sharakkhal
Just another reason to treat the inquirer like the enquirer, and not believe it.
...except that this is a Register story.
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post #9 of 9
7/31/04 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by bloke
I call BS, but what they're hinting at is that parts of the Alviso chipset (like 533MHz bus support) may trickle out into products before the full Sonoma package is released.



...except that this is a Register story.
Oops. You can tell I don't pay much attention to that website, not even it's name.
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