Tech Week In Review 2001.07.30 - 2001.08.05 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Code Red II: The Return? Bluetooth worth $330 billion by 2006, analysts say.. New magnetic semiconductor paves way for quantum computers? Nintendo will ship 500.000 GameCube units for the Japanese release on September 14:th. Apple is holding back iMac 2 release until market is ready? CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: 2GHz Intel P4 already (unofficially)available? Alpha technology will be "added" to Itanum line. ATI to release it's own chipset, to rival nVidia's nForce? Sun & TI work together on Copper-based Sparc CPU. 1.2GHz "Tualatin" PIII apparently available, but who's buying? ARM extends licensing deal with Intel & TI. Consumers will decide RAMBUS's fate, Intel CEO Craig Barret says.. Intergraph suing intel over 64-bit Itanium patents. VIA's new P4 DDR chipset lacks in support from mobo-makers.. SUN's Ultrasparc 5 becomes ultra-parallel? Chip revenues in June place Japan ahead of the US. Intel gathers support for it's "Arapahoe" I/O technology. Compaq's Alpha plans "revealed". Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: John Carmack of id Software discusses "Doom 3" performance. Internet Explorer 6 to launch on August 15:th. GameSpy presents what they think are the top 50 computer/console games of all time. Leaked copies of MacOS 10.1 confirm promised speed increase. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: Hubble photo shows colliding galaxies. Study shows Solar storms destroy Ozone. Saturn's new moons are remnants of a larger moon (or moons). "Electonic ear" to bring back hearing to deaf people. Mars landscape shaped by water in "recent" times? Extrasolar corona studied for the first time thanx to ESO's VLT.