Tech Week In Review
2001.08.13 - 2001.08.19
A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday.

General IT
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Palm buys Be! (of Be OS fame)
US has now activated the IBM built ASCI White, the worlds fastest supercomputer.
Bill Gates talks about the future, remembering it was 20 years since the PC was introduced. Keep in mind though, that this is the man who once said "640k (memory) ought to be enough for everyone".
Net traffic is doubling every 6 months.
Micro PC's by JadeTec available in UK.
Creative Labs soon to ship it's next generation audio card, the "Sound Blaster Audigy".
Shareholders sue the notorious memory maker Rambus.
FBI arrested software piracy gang.
Review of Nokia's delayed 9210 Communicator.
Music biz tries to block CD-ripping.

CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup
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ATI prepares it's next generation GFX cards launch. The "Radeon 8500" & "7500".
VIA launched it's (illegal?) P4 chip-set..
Intel confirms 2GHz P4 launch on August 27:th.
Intrinsity to sample it's (revolutionary) CPU in late 2002.
nVidia lost 13% market share in Q2...
...but nVidia's profits are up 50% for Q2.
nVidia prepares the Quadro 2 Go for the less-talket-about mobile work-station market.
IBM ceases AMD support in it's PC line.
Taiwan's DRAM producers agree on production cuts to increase (profit) margins.
AMD to eliminate it's aging K6 (I,II,III) line.
Intel re-launches it's 900MHz (PIII) Xeon.
Intel's mobile roadmap re-visited.
Itanium running 64bit Win XP performing poorly according to latest SPEC ratings.
Intel adding on-die L3 cache to it's Xeon processors.
IBM's new chipset supports both 32 & 64 bit (Xeon) CPUs.

Software Roundup
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Microsoft releases a utility for keeping your OS patched with the latest security patches.
nVidia about to release Detonator 4 drivers.
No profit in Linux games?
More on WinXP's "Passport" and photo services..
Intel's video encryption standard, seriously flawed, according to a well-respected cryptographer.

Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other)
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Circular planetary orbits dicovered in the 47 Ursae Majoris solar system.
New, large Earth-crossing asteroid found.
Humans may be easier to clone than animals.