Tech Week In Review 2001.01.15 - 2001.01.21 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: AltaVista to earn money "the RAMBUS way". (By suing everyone else) Japanese scientist creating transparent semiconductors. Sony makes effort to double it's Playstation2 production. "Mobile phone" - "Eye cancer" connection? VR gloves just became better, thanx to a teenager. MP3.com technology becomes "open source". Yet another step forward in nano-technology. Internet connected clock-radios out soon. Scientists find a way to triple the bandwidth of mobile phones. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: 10 GHz not so far away, after all? Swedish company Virtutech to write "Sledgehammer" emulator for AMD. AMD updates it's road-map. Palomino to be released "soon". AMD Athlon - still "processor of the year". VIA is shipping it's DDR AMD chipset (KT266). AMD ships 600 & 700MHz mobile Durons. Samsung presents "more affordable" RAMBUS memory. (20% price cut) University of Delaware to announce the worlds first AMD based clustered super-computer. ATI acquires a license to make Pentium 4 chip-sets. New iMacs to use the improved G3 (PowerPC 750CXe) @700MHz? (Not G4) Intel to produce a new mobile chip for ultra-slim notebooks. Compaq plans to build an Alpha based super-computer capable of 100TFLOPS. IBM builds Linux based super-computer. RAMBUS DRAM shortage expected. Prices forced up? Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Windows "Whistler" (beta) screen-shots show some of the new features. Security hole in Windows Media Player 7. Microsoft will sell Whistler by telling you how bad Win 98 really is? Whistler copy-protection easily cracked? DivX goes open source. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: British military developing/testing anti-tech weapons? Amazing VR based nano-manipulator allows users to physically move around molecules. New type of nuclear reactor could make 2 week trips to Mars possible. New detailed (telescope) image of dark cloud about to become a star.