by Anna Filatova
12/18/2001 | 12:00 AM
ABIT today reported that their engineers introduced one more innovative development of theirs: new four-phase voltage converter, which will be used in the ongoing mainboards from this company (they used to implement a three-phase converter before).
The main idea of this innovation is very simple: having added extra MOSFE (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect) transistors to the voltage converter circuit, so that there are 8 of them now, the engineers managed to reduce the operation time of each of them and hence to reduce the specific heat (W per transistor) and to increase the stability of the mainboard in general.
The new voltage converter is already implemented in new ABIT BD7 mainboards built on Intel 845 B-Step chipset (i845D), which should be officially announced this week (see this news story).
You might be willing to ask: and why does the news story title sound so strange? Everything is very simple: the official ABIT press-release devoted to this event starts with the words: "ABIT Engineering has done it again". We believe that they could have added some more expressional "Yeah!" in the beginning :-)