Tech Week In Review 2001.05.07 - 2001.05.13 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Profitable Dell to fire 3000-4000 employees. 3Com to cut 3000 staff. RAMBUS to pay $3.5M for commiting fraud. mp3.com sued for $40 million. Microsofts new licensing strategy... CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup RELATED STORIES: Palomino Athlons to be called "Athlon 4". The 0.13um PIII makes an early return? More pricecuts from Intel. Mainboard makers not too hapy with Intels latest move... IBM's Itanium based workstation to go on sale this month? New GFX chip from Matrox to ship soon. Dual Athlon Mobos soon "out there". Rumours about ATI's next-gen chips. Rumours about new high performing GFX chip from VIA (S3). Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Apple to launch MacOS X Server 2.0 Apparently, Service pack 2 for Win 2k is out. (But is it official?) Media Player 8, WinXP only? Follow up to the Easy CD Creator +Win2k related issues. Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other) RELATED STORIES: The first real-life version of StarTrek's "Holodeck"? Dual Radio telescopes relveal the surface of Venus. Man on mars within 20 years, says NASA chief Dan Goldin.