2001.08.27 - 2001.09.02   |   A summary of the past weeks main technology & science news. Updated every Sunday.
Congratulations to England, for their 5-1 trashing of Germany! All five goals were scored by Liverpool players! Yeehaa! :-)
General IT RELATED STORIES: Ericsson creates new 3G phone company. AMD posts loss for Q3. Toshiba, Hitachi to slash ~40.000 workers. Microsoft delays X-Box in Japan. Intel explains "proactive computing". Hard-core gamer drops dead in Thailand. Taiwanese TSMC investing in China? Letsbuyit.com slashes staff, closes offices. Broadband-via-Satellite-service online in UK. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: WinXP gets "universally unique" ID's. Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 6. Fake "Microsoft" mail is actually a virus. Amiga DE player to sell for $20. Science Roundup (Science & Astronomy) RELATED STORIES: Unveiling the flat universe.. "Light-curve" reveals habitable planets?	CHIP Roundup (CPUs, Chip-sets, Memory) RELATED STORIES: IBM has created a logical circuit in a molecule. Intel rolled out it's 2GHz Pentium 4 chip. Intel demos 3,5 GHz Pentium 4. Motorola to intergate on-chip DRAM controller. Intel samples 1,5 GHz mobile P4's. AMD, Intel to co-operate on next-gen I/O. AMD cuts CPU prices, again. Intel shows multithrading tech. Intel's Desktop ROADMAP. Intel's Server ROADMAP. Intel's Mobile ROADMAP. Intel delays "Foster" server P4 CPU. Samsung, Micronas join to develop "TV chip". Toshiba to sell DRAM business to Samsung? Intel's DDR chipsets on sale Q1 2002. Intel to support USB 2.0 in upcoming chip-sets. Motorola announces successful EUV test. "Advanced DRAM" group proposes standard. Serial ATA at Intel Dev Forum. nVidia presents PowerMizer for mobile GPU's. Philips shows flexible LCD's. Intel shows new integrated graphics core. Intel proud of it's McKinley CPU. Mitsubishi sampling 512 Mbit DDR SDRAM. Hynix samples 0.13um DDR SDRAM. ATI shows Mobility Radeon 7500.