Granite Bay is ready for launch

SOURCES HAVE CONFIRMED that Granite Bay is ready to roll, and is already in production. It is to be launched in November to support the new 3.06GHz Pentium 4 with 533MHz FSB and Hyper-Threading technology also launching that month.

PC1066 RIMMs currently sell for over twice the price of PC2100 DDR DIMMs at 256MB quantities.

Granite Bay will support AGP8X and up to 4GB of PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM, which must be inserted in equal pairs, bringing us full circle to the Single Inline Memory Modules (SIMMs) of old.

Many motherboard firms were showcasing their wares with Granite Bay at the Intel Developer Forum in September. They include the Gigabyte GA-8INXP, the Iwill GB533, the Epox EP-4GBA, and the ABIT GB7-ULTRA.

The big one to watch, however, is the Asus P4G8X. It packs 5 PCI slots, and the AGP 8x slot, as well as optional Serial ATA RAID and optional Gigabit Ethernet controllers. Hi-Speed USB 2.0 at 480 Mb/s will also be featured to take advantage of all the new devices coming out this Christmas. µ

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