2001.08.20 - 2001.08.26   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
General IT
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Linux celebrates it's 10:th birthday.
Cisco in radical restructuring.
Napster's subscription service delayed til years end.
VIA's profits worse than expected.
Nintendo delayes US GameCube launch.
Sharp launches next-gen "Zaurus" PDA.

Software Roundup
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Microsoft ships WinXP to PC makers.
Apple continues to update it's 9.XX OS.
SoftImage Announces Soft Image XSI 2.0
NewTek delivers Lightwave 7.0
CHIP Roundup (CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory)
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Intel presents it's i870 Itanium chipset with DDR support.
AMD to reveal it's 300mm wafer fab partner.
DRAM prices still dropping.
New Pentium 4 pricelist.
Motorola names it's PPC G5 CPU, the "PPC 8500".
Intel to ship it's i845 chip-set early?
Bulk shipment of faster (166MHz) DDR SDRAM.
IBM may sell the "Gecko" CPU to others than Nintendo.
Acer Labs to support AMD's "Hypertransport".
AMD cuts prices throughout it's CPU range.

Science Roundup (Science & Astronomy)
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Recently discovered asteroid may be the biggest yet.
Galileo images of Calisto reveal strange landscape.
NASA tests Black Hole detector in upper atmosphere.