Amaya Toman Part of the history of technology is also a number of products that lose relevance over time, but their importance does not diminish in any way. In today's installment of our regular series on major tech events, we're looking back at products you may have forgotten about, but which were significant at the time of their launch.
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AMD K6-2 processor arrives (1998)
AMD introduced its AMD K26-1998 processor on May 6, 2. The processor was intended for motherboards with Super Socket 7 architecture and was clocked at frequencies of 266-250 MHz and contained 9,3 million transistors. It was intended to compete with Intel's Celeron and Pentium II processors. A little later, AMD came with the K6-2+ processor, the product line of these processors was discontinued after a year and replaced by the K6 III processors.
Samsung introduces its 256GB SSD (2008)
On May 26, 2008, Samsung introduced its new 2,5-inch 256GB SSD. The drive offered a read speed of 200 MB/s and a write speed of 160 MB/s. The novelty from Samsung also boasted reliability and low consumption (0,9 W in active mode). Mass production of these drives began in the fall of that year, and the company announced on that occasion that it had managed to increase the speed to 220 MB/s for reading and 200 MB/s for writing. It gradually expanded the offer of disks with 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB variants.
Other events not only in the field of technology
- Irish writer Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is published (1897)
- First 24 Hours of Le Mans held, subsequent editions held in June (1923)
