[News] Marvell announces Discovery III Northbridge | ANN.lu |
Posted on 30-Sep-2003 15:01 GMT by takemehomegrandma | 94 comments View flat View list |
Marvell today announced the Discovery III northbridge. It features a 200MHz PowerPC CPU interface, 200MHz DDR SDRAM Interface (400Mbps data rate), Dual CPU SMP Support (MPX and 60x modes), PCI-X, Gigabit ethernet and is software compatible with other Discovery northbridges.
Source: morphos-news.de
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Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 01-Oct-2003 01:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 43 (strobe): Since that's the original Peg 1 evaluation board(?), more like AMR or CNR or whatever the heck it was that all the boards were going to have for a while, before it became obvious that 1. broadband would take over before either solution would get softmodem support, and 2. plain *soundcard* risers for the port never really came into existence at retail.
Useless right now, but sort of a shame those were shed, as they'd make a very fun 'geek port' for soft-DSP projects if/when the 'community' could support third-party peripheral projects again.
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I dunno what's up with comparing this design to the supporting chips on the Apple G5. It gives all the bus features of the Apple models, which kicks ass, but given processor bus protocols, it's closer to whatever they did in the DDR XServes... No need to BS about it, it looks like a great chip that'll give the G3 and G4 series a good lease on life next to the 970.
Since those G3s and G4s are still much less expensive than a "G5"/970 for mere mortals (even IBM doesn't have *their* hardware out yet, Apple has exclusivity and they're backlogged, and so on), can't we accept this as 'good news' enough?
If it proves easier for Genesi to integrate, more power to 'em. No need to revisit arguments as to whether or not any Articias were/are 'buggy,' but it's obvious that Genesi hit inconveniences in their approach to designing with them and decided to look for something else. Eyetech seems to be happy, Genesi seems happy with Marvell thus far (hope we don't see 'May' chips in six months... 'Stan Lee' chips?), products start to differentiate such that we *can* have nice "My computer's better than yours!" arguments on basic technical grounds...
It'll be interesting to watch the price/features play out in competition.
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Call me stupid, but that "Device" on the right side of Marvell's little block diagram, 32-bits @ 133MHz... That's bound to be their way of saying "on-chip AGP," isn't it?
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While we're flipping through old photos, remember http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/gfx/pegasos2.jpg ? Hee, Sonnettech! (Which reminds me, did anyone reveal the CPU socket/slot attachment for Peg2? Is 'Genesi Slot 1' still a standard, or was that causing trouble with tolerances for the G4 cards? It'd be nice if everyone started sharing MegArray for parts-bin unification on the consumer end, but somehow I don't see that happening?) |
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