This summer, we offer you the return of a topic, Nostalgeek. And we decided to dwell on a specific year: 2001. Distant and close both the year 2001 is interesting to analyze, to show developments in the high-tech in 10 years. Every day, during the holidays, we will offer you a retrospective of a week of 2001, with the news of the day and a small analysis on what there is in 2011.
April, 2001. Step of fish here...
Intel should launch the Pentium 4 1.7 GHz next week, a model with the 180 nm. And information about the next generation, engraved in 130 nm on a 300 mm wafers, already there. The 300 mm wafers to place about 2 times more than chips on wafers from 200 mm usually used. AMD has (finally) announced a Duron 900 MHz, an entry-level chip, and Micron breaks the prices on RFI: PC2100 (133 MHz) is proposed for a close price of the PC1600 up (100 MHz): $60 for 128 MB (against $55) and $104 for 256 MB ($95 in PC1600 up).
In 2011, the DDR memory still sells for upgrading old machines and strips are worth $14 for 256 MB, DDR PC2700 (166 MHz) or DDR PC3200 (200 MHz). The Pentium 4 reached 3.8 GHz life with transistors engraved after the 130 nm and 90 nm, 65 nm. Wafer-level, even if it currently serious in 32 nm, their diameter does not (yet) moved: it remains on the 300 mm, although rumors about a 450 mm versions.
In storage, Maxtor just redeem Quantum, another constructor of hard drives, and society becomes number 1 global market. For lovers of external hard drives, the first USB 2.0 cards arrive in interface PCI. They are usually four or five USB 2.0 connectors. But the standard will democratize really than when Intel or Via integrated USB 2.0 in the chipset.
In 2011, Maxtor was acquired by Seagate, which then bought the Samsung hard drive division. IBM bought by Hitachi, which then was acquired by Western Digital Corporation. About Fujitsu, storage division was purchased by Toshiba. In practice, it remains three companies: Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba. USB 2.0 is now a standard, but USB 3.0 cards are available in PCI-Express. And the standard will democratize really than when Intel (for AMD, this is done since little) will incorporate the standard into its chipsets.
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