Tech Week In Review 2001.05.14 - 2001.05.20 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Microsoft's X-Box console to ship on November 8:th for $299. Nintendo's GameCube to be released on November 5:th for $199. WWW celebrates it's 10:th birthday! Net access for Play Station 2, through AOL? Nokia to build it's own "Indrema"? A Linux powered "media terminal". The last of the big Intel-only vendors, Dell has announced Athlon4 powered notebooks. Forrester Research predicts the death of the Web as you know it today. Intel is commiting to Linux. Light-based Quantum computer prototype built. New sound-transmission technology emerges. General topic: Douglas Adams dies at 49. CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: Intel confirms Itanium release within weeks. As reported last week, the Athlon 4 was released. Click here for a review. New chip-set from VIA for the mobile Athlon 4. 1.4 GHz Athlons out within weeks? AMD samples 1.5 GHz Desktop Athlon 4's, volume production expected in July. Intel's Xeon will reach 2.4GHz within a year. nVidia & Dicreet bring the Quadro DCC GFX card optimized for 3DSMax. For unknown(?) reasons nVidia is talking about GeForce 6 & 10! Kyro III details or rumours. More details on Intel's road-map. RDRAM (RAMBUS) compared to Betamax. DDR SDRAM same price as SDR SDRAM. New system-on-chip from Intel. Faster CPU's in Palm next year, when Motorola move to 0.13um with it's Dragonball CPU enhanced with ARM tech. Sony, Toshiba announce joint 100-70nm fab scheduled for early 2003. ATI's pressrelease on Nintendo GamCube technology. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: WinXP will get USB 2.0 support, but not "out of the box". New version of the popular 3D graphics software Lightwave is out. Outlook "worm" (virus) designed to jam the notorious Echelon system. SP2 for Win2k was out last week, but now (finally) it's official. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: NASA kicks off "SLI" (Space Launch Initiative). More evidence(?) for water once being on Mars.