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• Mobo Makers Try Again with Intel's 925X and 915P Chipsets*
  Tuesday 10 August 2004 – 07:00
  Heat problems associated with the 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 mired our first pre-retail launch tests of Intel's Socket 775 with DDR2 memory. Now that board makers have had over six weeks to work the kinks out, we look again at how mobos take the heat from Intel's 925X and 915P chipsets.
• Tom's Blurb: Microprocessor Forum and the Cold War of the x86-processor makers*
  Wednesday 20 October 1999 – 06:00
  There's still no improvement of the Athlon motherboard situation visible anywhere on the horizon. It can't be too hard guessing which force is behind that. Michael Slater didn't bother commenting on this situation as well, so does nobody really care anymore?
• Computex 2002 Day 3: Mobo ennui affects mobo makers*
  Wednesday 5 June 2002 – 06:00
  Mobo makers want to be more than mobo makers. We look at what ASUS, Gigabyte, Jetway and ECS are doing to make the switch. ALI has its own K8 solution and is taking HyperTransport to the P4 platform. The 648 continues to generate buzz, and we talk to Alex Wu, Director of Integrated Products at SiS. ClawHammer - is it going to be called the Athlon Ultra 3400+ to compete against P4 in the 3GHz range? A strategic push is on. We have a realistic release schedule (or do we?). Plus graphics news from Triplex and Leadtek.