Tech Week In Review
2001.08.06 - 2001.08.12
A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday.

General IT
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Cisco reports $1 billion loss for fiscal 2001.
26 000 layoffs in the US computer industry in July.
The (IBM) PC was 20 years old on August 12:th...
Zona presents servers dedicated for Online games.

CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup
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Intel's Itanium CPU's, too hot for servers? (Power dissipation is 130W!!!)
AMD voted in favor of Intel's Arapahoe technology.
Hitachi improves SDRAM design.
Memory makers prepare 333MHz DDR SDRAM. (NOTE that the article mistakenly states bandwidth in Mbytes/s when it should have been GBytes/s)
"Chip-in-a-day" design developed at Berkley.
"Group" to build the worlds fastest supercomputer, a linked cluster, dubbed the "TeraGrid".
NanoPierce in talks with major companies about licensing what they claim to be a revolutionary approach to chip-packaging.
Hynix doubled DDR SDRAM output.

Software Roundup
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MPEG 7 standard presented..
Game developer "id Software", declares/shows new titles at QuakeCon 2001.

Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other)
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Solar powered robots proposed as distant planetary explorers.
NASA makes succesful "Reusable Launch Vehicle" engine test.
New TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope) allows image resolution of 0.1 nanometer.