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Intel Opens Its Front-Side Bus

Posted by kdawson on from the engineers-rampant-on-a-field-azure dept.

vivin writes "The Inquirer is reporting that Intel has opened up its FSB. Intel did this during IDF 07. What this means is that you can plug non-Intel things into the Intel CPU socket. The article says 'This shows that Intel is willing to take AMD seriously as a competitive threat, and is prepared to act upon it. In addition to this breaking one of the most sacred taboos at Intel, it also hints that engineering now has the upper hand over bureaucracy.'"

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  1. sorry... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Intel Opens Its Front-Side Bus

    ... just like your sister

  2. Re:didn't it used to be this way? by TheUni · · Score: 2, Funny

    And by CPU, I DON'T mean the case and everything inside :)

    Yea, that'd be the "modem".
  3. Re:didn't it used to be this way? by MBGMorden · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Hard drive" was the common one back when I was doing tech work as a student in college.

    It was kinda amusing one day we were sitting in the office and some professor comes in frantic that "Somebody stole my hard drive!!!?!?!?!".

    We were all sitting there thinking "What person is gonna take the time and effort to open up the machine and take the hard drive? This guy must have secret flux capacitor plans on there or something.". We get to his office and the whole computer is gone . . .

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  4. Re:Not Invented Here!!!! by Intron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dress warm.

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  5. Re:Not the first time by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is the date that I am seeing when clicking on the link
    That's because you didn't take DST into account.
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  6. Re:Not the first time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And they'll call it SuperHyperTransport?

  7. Re:Not the first time by mcpkaaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they'll call it SuperHyperTransport?

    SHyT has a nice ring to it.

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