New! nForce 2 Ultra 400Gb chipset?
Rumours are flying around that Nvidia is releasing yet another version of the nForce2 AthlonXP platform chipset.
Named nForce2 Ultra 400Gb, Nvidia has included NVIDIA DualNet, concurrent operation of two 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet/Fast Ethernet ports. NVIDIA enhanced communications Gigabit Ethernet integrated 10/100/1000 Mbps third generation NV MAC support. StreamThru isochronous controller paired with HyperTransport results in fastest networking performance. NVIDIA firewall technology, 2 additional USB2.0 ports, for a total of 8, NVIDIA RAID supports 2 Serial ATA drives with transfer rates of up to 150MB/sec support for RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD, and IEEE 1394a/FireWire.
It seems that Nvidia does not see the AthlonXP platform as dead just yet. Pretty interesting that they have included HyperTransport technology, since I thought that was limited to the A64 line. Looks pretty good though, kind of a little brother to the nForce3 250Gb.
By Rob Parks, The Crucible
