CHIP FIRM AMD got its first strike in against the Centrino blitz here in CeBIT by announcing its first chip for the so called thin-and-light market. It has a total of 12 notebook processors used bz a variety of vendors, the firm said. The range includes XP-Ms at 1700+ speeds and above using microPGA packaging.

Its full size notebook chips, also in the XP-M series, come at speeds of 2000+ up to 2600+ and are aimed at the burgeoning desknote marketplace.

AMD said its low voltage Athlon XP-M are Socket A parts support a 266MHz front side bus, use .13 micron process tech and it claims it is deploying an open-architecture 802.11diddly approach, allowing for a range of third party vendors to add their own wireless kits. It said Fujitsu will use the XP-M in a Lifebook notebook

News source: The Inq



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AOL said its software allows users to see which sites have attempted to deliver pop-ups to them. If the customer wants to get pop-ups from a particular Web site, the user can add the site to a personal "allow list."

The browser will display a running total of the number of pop-ups and pop-unders blocked during each session, AOL said.



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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by hardgiant on 12 Mar 2003 - 08:59
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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by 8tImER on 12 Mar 2003 - 15:06
[quote]It has a total of 12 notebook processors used bz a variety of vendors, the firm said.[/quote] Hehe, Mike Magee apparently wrote that on a keyboard with german keyboard layout, where Y and Z are swapped :p
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