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.