Tech Week In Review
2000.11.20 - 2000.11.26
A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every sunday.
General IT
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Paper-thin display developed by Canon.
Iridium satellites saved...again..
3D projection without special 3D glasses.
Microsoft met with the Dutch hacker who twice hacked their servers.
EMusic claims to have a program to track Napster users.
Playstation 2 launched in Europe...
Another nanotech breakthrough.
Sony, Honda show 2-legged commercial robots.
CHIP
(CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY)
Roundup
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The release of Pentium 4 generated a large number of reviews. Here are some of the best:
Tom's Hardware, original review.
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Update 1
Update 2
AnandTech's review.
Ace's Hardware review.
Sharky Extreme's review.
X-bit Labs review, part 1.
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Part 2.
Tech-review's short and easy-to-understand P4 review.
Intel fix "last minute" P4 bug.
Rambus DRAM orders lower than expected.
(P4 requires Rambus memory for the time being.)
Micron samples 256-Mbit, 266MHz DDR SDRAM
Micron, Hyundai ask FTC to charge Rambus on antitrust violations
nVidia "nv20" details leak.
Software Roundup
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Rumour has it that part of the Win 2000 code is actually taken from the Linux open source code.
Windows 9X & Me apparently can't handle more than 512 Mb RAM.