Nostalgeek 2001 (18) : Via, Wi-Fi, Plextor

This summer, we will 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. Each 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.

And we are in May 2001.

Via chipsets specialist, is well and poster sales on the rise, in 99 million of $ on April. Intel, meanwhile, decreased the price of its processors: the recent Pentium 4 1.7 GHz is worth $352 (and this is the top of range) and other models are worth between 193 and $256.

In 2011, Via has a turnover of 15.7 million from $ in April. At Intel, processors for individuals reach $1,000 and a few high-end models exceed $500. The price of ix (excluding extreme and Pentium) Core ranges from $113 to 583.

In the GPU, the rumours about the next entry-level NVIDIA circulate. The NV17 would therefore be a "GeForce 3 MX".

In 2011, it is known that the NV17 was a variant of the GeForce 2, exit as the GeForce 4 MX and GeForce 3 chip was never declined in a low version of range.

In storage, the first 24 x writers arrive (3.6 MB/s) and Plextor will offer IDE, SCSI and FireWire versions. In networks, the first products Wi - Fi at a correct price arrive: card 802.11 b (11 Mbps) about €250 and access points including an Ethernet, a modem V.90 and the WEP. The 64-bit WEP, to pay about €500 and for the 128-bit WEP, the price rises to 1 €350. Remember that Apple provides its products AirPort (trade name) for $100 card and $300 the kiosk (Ethernet/V.90/WEP 64-bit).

In 2011, the engravers are SATA and possibly USB (2.0 or 3.0) but the IDE, the SCSI and the FireWire are very rare. In Wi - Fi, cards work to 450 megabits/s and are integrated into the computers and access points incorporate Ethernet 1 gigabit/s. In the majority of cases, the access point is available with subscriptions to the Internet.

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Nostalgeek 2001 (50) : dual core, 160 Go

This summer, we will 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. Each 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.

More than two...

If current solutions offer only a single CPU, the multicore is the future. And Intel should propose models with multiple cores in 2005, at the time by 70 nm, while IBM already has a Power4 of this type in (very) high. While ATi will launch very low power chipset for the Pentium 4, Via launches Eden, a platform which use C3 processors.

In 2011, the multicore is generalized and Intel predictions were correct: the first dual core are a 65 nm Pentium 4. ATi (AMD) is evidently more chipsets for Pentium 4 but versions for K10 processors exist of course.  With respect to Via Eden platform still exists, with (a bit) faster CPU, such as the C7 and the Nano.

First 160 GB hard disk drives arrive, priced at €415 and with incompatibilities: must be a motherboard that supports 48-bit LBA.

In 2011, the storage is (much) less expensive, at least in the hard drives. A 2 TB model is less than €60 but also suffers from incompatibilities with legacy systems. More fun, a 160 GB in 2011, considered as expensive, SSD is less than a 160 GB hard drive in 2001.

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Nostalgeek 2001 (15) : DVD+RW, Itanium et 130 nm

Week very quiet, even though the roadmap Intel indicate that the Itanium looks and that consumer models emerge in 2005. Fortunately, the Celeron 850 MHz arrives and the roadmap indicate that the Pentium 4 will reach 2 GHz 180 nm and at least 2.4 GHz 130 nm. Finally, the Pentium III 130 nm are expected in the third quarter to 1.26 GHz.In 2011, the Itanium is dead and Intel adopted extensions to AMD 64 bits (with some modifications). The Pentium 4 well completed their life to 2 GHz in 180 nm but Northwood (130 nm) peaked at 3.4 GHz and same 3.46 GHz with the Gallatin. The Pentium III 130 nm, it reached 1.4 GHz.In storage, Philips printmakers better manage the problems of insufficient cache with the Ultra Buffer memory and the battle between the formats of DVD is raging. DVD + RW it seems, is the winner in the re-writable formats.

In 2011, cache problems are very rare: hard drives are fast enough to power a burner while performing another task. The war between DVD-R and DVD + R is obviously complete optical drives are all now able to read all formats, and another war took place (it also completed), that between the Blu - ray and HD DVD.

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Nostalgeek 2001 (15) : DVD+RW, Itanium et 130 nm

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. 10 Years ago.

Week very quiet, even though the roadmap Intel indicate that the Itanium looks and that consumer models emerge in 2005. Fortunately, the Celeron 850 MHz arrives and the roadmap indicate that the Pentium 4 will reach 2 GHz 180 nm and at least 2.4 GHz 130 nm. Finally, the Pentium III 130 nm are expected in the third quarter to 1.26 GHz.In 2011, the Itanium is dead and Intel adopted extensions to AMD 64 bits (with some modifications). The Pentium 4 well completed their life to 2 GHz in 180 nm but Northwood (130 nm) peaked at 3.4 GHz and same 3.46 GHz with the Gallatin. The Pentium III 130 nm, it reached 1.4 GHz.In storage, Philips printmakers better manage the problems of insufficient cache with the Ultra Buffer memory and the battle between the formats of DVD is raging. DVD + RW it seems, is the winner in the re-writable formats.In 2011, cache problems are very rare: hard drives are fast enough to power a burner while performing another task. The war between DVD-R and DVD + R is obviously complete optical drives are all now able to read all formats, and another war took place (it also completed), that between the Blu - ray and HD DVD.

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Nostalgeek 2001 (14) : Maxtor, USB 2.0, DDR

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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Nostalgeek 2001 (13) : 3dfx, Western Digital, Matrox

Although nothing interesting, if motherboards are legions at CeBIT, new are rare. Single point interesting: Intel shows a Pentium 4 2 GHz processor on its stand. And not a Northwood 130 nm but a "simple" Willamette 180 nm.In 2011, the race for the frequency has resumed, with processors approaching (again) the 4 GHz, while this limit was close in 2005 with a Pentium 4.

3dfx, it's really over. NVIDIA bought part of the assets, the rest disappears. Players are sad. During this time, Matrox Announces a new card: not a Parhelia 2, a Millennium G450... in PCI. The followers of the multiscreen love.

In 2011, the only thing which remains of 3dfx is the SLI name, reused by NVIDIA. And of course some players the time of the Glide Nostalgeek. And for those who like to install several screens, there are powerful cards to manage six screens. The PCI was replaced by PCI-Express x 1 for appoints graphics cards.Western Digital has announced a range of hard drives 7 200 rpm with a record density: 27 GB per platter. It is therefore possible to offer fast hard drives with a capacity of 80 GB, which is huge. After Sony, it is the turn of TDK to propose a technology increasing the capacity of the CD - R: ML discs can store 2 GB on a media 12 cm in diameter.

In 2011, high range hard drives are 3 To and announced at CeBIT 2011 trays are 1 To. In optical discs, DVD (4.7 then 8.5 GB) then the Blu - ray disc (25 and 50 GB) have replaced the CD and this type of media tends to disappear for the benefit of the flash memory or external hard drives.

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Nostalgeek 2001 (3) : Duron Mobile, NV20, 60 Go de HDD

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.

Continue with Nostalgeek 2001: third week of January 2001.

AMD launches the Mobile Duron processors for low-end processors 600 or 700 MHz. During this time, Via announced a new processor, the Via Cyrix III at 700 MHz and Intel explains that the Pentium 4 should pass to the SDRAM memory quickly, in place of the RDRAM. For the rest, the rumors about on the Pentium III "tualatin", this third version of the Pentium III is highly anticipated...

In 2011, the low-end chips are less advanced (at the technological level) that the Mobile Duron, but frequencies are more students and much lower consumption. Be the Bobcat or the Atom, the low cost is in fashion. Pentium 4, we will see, has disappointed once coupled to SDRAM and the Pentium III "tualatin" was stationed primarily at workstations and laptops. Moreover, it was inconsistent with motherboards designed to "Coppermine".

Not much at the end of January 2001, only a few rumors of the NV200, chip designed to succeed the GeForce 2. It expected the support of the Vertex Shader and higher than the expensive GeForce 2 Ultra performance, but that is all.

In 2011, the GPU of the smartphones top range are faster and more complete than the NV20, who will become its output the GeForce 3.

Western Digital has announced a hard drive 5400 RPM with trays of 30 GB, in its range of Caviar. To achieve 7 200 rpm, it merely 20 GB platters. Western Digital allows for 60 GB hard drives, a high capacity.

In 2011, the 3.5-inch hard drives reach 1 TB by plateaus and the 2.5-inch 500 GB are.

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Nostalgeek 2001 (6) : Mobility Radeon, Bluetooth, MRAM

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.

In February 2001, what happens?

In 2001, if the "dual core" are still as sweet dreams in the general public, it is possible to work with two processors. And AMD will propose a solution of this type with the 760MP chipset, which allows two Athlon Socket A parallel. And in the world of memory, IBM shows its MRAM prototypes, a memory intended to replace the DRAM and flash.

In 2011, the "bi - CPU" public platforms are rare, current processors for more SMP without server versions, but processors were in the vast majority of cases at least two cores. In the world of memory, the MRAM is a sweet dream and flash and DRAM are always very used. The next Holy Grail, this is the PRAM, which combines... benefits of DRAM and flash.

In the small world of the GPU, GeForce 2 MX 64 MB announcements are multiplying and the first rumours on the NV20 spread: NVIDIA should call the GeForce 3 map. In laptops, ATi finally enters the dance of the "GPU" with a Radeon Mobility. The map consumes little (0.5 W in some cases) but misunderstands the T & L engine. The maximum memory is 16 MB and DirectX 7 is part.

In 2011, entry-level cards were sometimes 2 GB of RAM and the information on the next NVIDIA chip, Kepler, multiply. It is (simplifying) the fifteenth generation of GeForce. In cards GPU mobile, Radeon 6970M, the current top of range, can handle 2 GB of RAM and is compatible with DirectX 11.

In mobility, the first Bluetooth cards arrive: format Compact Flash, they are worth about €250. In laptops, IBM announced that the Thinkpad will be delivered with Linux preinstalled (TurboLinux) because there is a demand. But Windows Me will remain in part on the side of the system open source. Finally, Plextor Announces the decision of its line of SCSI CD drives and CD burners.

In 2011, the Bluetooth is standard in lots of machines and chips are worth only a few dollars. For laptops, some try to still offer of Linux as the operating system (there is a demand) but it is still (too) rare. If Linux is not imposed in 10 years in the public computer, it is still widely used in many areas, smartphones for example. Finally, in the small world of optical drives, the SCSI is, like the PATA. And if the SATA is omnipresent, the future of the same optical drives is dark: they are less and less used.

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Nostalgeek 2001 (5) : Ultrastar, Pentium III ULV

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.

Nostalgeek 2001. We arrive in February.

The first capable of operating at 250 MHz DDR memory chips arrive and are intended to replace the 200 MHz chips usually used. In processors, Intel abandoned the Slot 1 (in its version SECC2) and focuses on the Socket 370 and its variants. Indeed, the connector, introduced with the Pentium II, is no longer necessary: the evolution of the fineness of engraving allows to place the cache directly into the CPU. Finally, Intel announced a Pentium III "ulv": running at 500 MHz, it had a 8.1 W TDP.

In 2011, the DDR3 exceeds "2500 MHz" equivalent CSDs. Intel discontinued Socket 370, Socket 423, Socket 478, the LGA775 and the LGA1156. The LGA1155 and the LGA1366 (end of life) are the norm. Finally, in the world of low consumption, the Atom has a TDP of less 2.5 w for a frequency of 1.6 GHz usually.

In drives, IBM has just announced a monster: Ultrastar 36Z15. This SCSI Ultra160 hard disk has a capacity of 36 GB, a cache of 4 MB and runs to 15,000 revolutions per minute. Advertised rates are huge: 52 MB/s.

In 2011, any hard disk entry offers 1 TB of capacity and 32 MB of cache. And despite trays which rotate at 5,400 rpm, flows generally exceed the 100 MB/s.

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