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In its research labs in Hillsboro, Oregon, Intel engineers have designed and manufactured a handful of transistors that are only 20 nanometers, or 0.02 microns, in size. By comparison, the transistors found in the latest chips in use today measure 0.18 microns from one side of the transistor gate to the other.

April 2001

IBM Breakthrough.

IBM scientists have built the first array of transistors out of carbon nanotubes -- tiny cylindrical structures of carbon atoms that are some 50,000 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair, technology that could someday enable a new class of much smaller and faster computer chips. Carbon nanotubes are the strongest fiber in all of nature, taking advantage of the carbon bond -- which is what makes a diamond so hard. Such new materials and processes are important because chipmakers expect that at some point, within the next decade or two, silicon-based chips cannot be made any smaller.

Feb 2001

NVIDIA GeForce3.

The GeForce3 is the world's most advanced GPU with more than 57 million transistors and the ability to perform more than 800 billion operations per second and 76 billion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). The GeForce3 GPU achieves an astounding 3.2 billion antialiased samples per second fill rate--more than four times the performance of the award-winning GeForce2 Ultra chip and more than seven times the processing power of any competitive consumer graphics product..

Jan 2001

Apple OS X plus Titanium Powerbook G4.

Apple Computer Inc. will release its new operating system on March 24 and bundle the software with computers starting in July, according to chief executive Steve Jobs. The company also unveiled its ultrathin, lightweight laptop, weighing in at just over five pounds, features a 15.2 inch screen, a built-in DVD player, 500mhz G4 processor and is encased in titanium.

Dec 2000

Microsoft ships embedded OS.

Microsoft will market two of its products as embedded operating systems: Windows NT Embedded 4.0 and Windows CE 3.0. Whistler Embedded is a "componentized" version of Whistler, Microsoft's successor to Windows 2000. It is being designed to run inside devices such as advanced set-top boxes, routers and Windows-based terminals.

Nov 2000

Seagate releases monster 180GB drive.

Seagate's Barracuda 180 , as well as being the biggest, it is also the quietest for its size - with an acoustic rating of 3.7 decibels. Idle power consumption is low too, at less than 10.3W. The drive spins at 7,200 RPM, the data transfer rate tops out at 47 MBps, and will be available in the industry-standard Ultra160 SCSI interface.

Sep 2000

Intel's Pentium 4 aka Willamette.

Intel's Pentium 4, aka Willamette, will debut just in time for the holidays. The 0.18 micron IA-32 based 32 bit microprocessor will first appear as a 1.4GHz part, with a speed upgrade to 1.5GHz before the end of the year. The Pentium 4 will have a 400MHz bus, employ 128 bit (SSE2) rather than the current 64 bit SSE of PentiumIII. According to senior Intel VP Albert Yu, Pentium 4's "NetBurst" feature will improve how computers handle tasks such as data encryption and video compression. Intel also demoed a Pentium 4 running at an amazing 2GHz.

Aug 2000

Nintendo's N-Cube aka Dolphin.

Details of Nintendo's next-generation console code-named N-Cube are as follows. N-cube will be powered by the 400mhz PowerPC-based Gekko Processor, graphics chip [called Flipper] comes from 3D graphics specialist ArtX, it's got 40-64MBs of RAM, N-cube will be strictly a gaming machine(no DVD movie playback) and will be compatible with Nintendo's forthcoming next generation 32-bit handheld gameboy system.

July 2000

Double Density CD Format.

Sony Corporation has announced plans to develop a "Double Density CD-ROM/-R/-RW with over 1GB data capacity. The Double Density CD formats are designed to provide a natural migration path for both consumers and manufacturers alike. To increase data density, track-pitch and minimum pit length are miniaturized to increase the data capacity from 650MB to 1.3GB. The formats are being finalized for licensing by September 2000.

June 2000

Voodoo and Thunderbird debut.

Advanced Micro Devices high-performance Athlon processor, code-named Thunderbird, will debut this month. The new chip, with 256KB of integrated cache and copper circuitry, will reportedly run at speeds ranging from 750 MHz to 1 GHz and higher. Meanwhile, 3D graphics firm 3dfx has begun shipping its much-anticipated next generation Voodoo 5500 AGP video cards complete with FSAA(full scene anti aliasing, in a nutshell gets rid of jaggies), plus huge 64MB of video memory.

May 2000

Intel Issues Major Motherboard Recall.

Intel has found some boards using the MTH (memory translator hub) may be sensitive to system noise under extreme conditions, and this issue may manifest itself in intermittent system reboots or system hangs during operation. This noise sensitivity may result in data loss and/or corruption. Intel has therefore placed motherboards based on the i820 chipset(incl ASUS P3C-2000 and CUC2000 series)on shipment hold and recalled those already sold for replacement.

April 2000

Ultra fast data transfers.

The device known as an electro-optic modulator, converts electrical signals into pulses of light which can then be transmitted down a fibre-optic cable.The Opti Chip is capable of converting signals at a rate of 100GB per second at very low voltages, according to researcher's at Universities of Washington and Southern Carolina. "We'll be able to take telephone signals, computer data, TV signals - any type of signal you can think of - put it on fibre-optic, route it around the world with almost no optical signal loss, and accomplish this with infinite bandwidth,'' according to research lead Larry Dalton.

March 2000

Worlds first Windows car.

French automaker Citroen has unveiled the biggest WinCE appliance ever. Displayed at the Geneva Motor Show, the Xsara Windows CE comes complete with voice recognition and control, GSM cellular, GPS, and in-car navigation. So far the company has plans to produce only 500 of the vehicles, which will be available sometime in the first half of this year.

Feb 2000

AMD Demonstrates 1.1GHz ATHLON processor!

AMD demonstrated a 1.1 GHz(1100 MHz) version of the AMD Athlon� processor manufactured in its Fab 30 facility in Dresden, Germany on February 7. The CPU is manufactured utilizing AMD's leading-edge 0.18 micron process technology featuring copper interconnects."We continue to aggressively advance the technologies that enable future AMD processors to deliver superior performance levels" said Larry Hollatz, group vice president of Computation Products at AMD. It's also amazing that the demonstration required no special cooling techniques, therefore with a little overclocking (and luck)one can only imagine the possibilities!

Jan 2000

Scientists creates "DNA computer".

The short-lived chemical computer began by arranging the synthetic DNA's genetic coding -- represented by the letters A, T, C and G -- in different combinations that represented the numerical solutions to a problem. Those DNA strands were fastened to a piece of glass covered with a thin sheet of gold, then bathed repeatedly in different solutions of enzymes that interacted with the DNA to weed out the wrong answers according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.

Dec 1999

Hyundai introduces 200MHZ SDRAM.

Hyundai MicroElectronics announced availability of 2Mx32 200MHz SDRAMs. "The SDRAM device offers a big advantage by using the same protocols and interface as the current SDRAM,'' said Mark Ellsberry, vice president of marketing at Hyundai Electronics America. ``In addition, this part runs at a very fast 200MHz which enables our customers to get yet another performance boost out of their current SDRAM designs.''

Nov 1999

Kenwood 72X TrueX CD-ROM Drive.

Kenwood Technologies (USA), Inc. announced the Kenwood 72X TrueX CD-ROM drive, their third high performance drive based on Zen Research's TrueX technology. The Kenwood 72X TrueX CD-ROM drive delivers an unparalleled sustained transfer rate ranging from 6.75MB/sec. to 10.8MB/sec across the entire disc. Remember to take a look at our CD-ROM page as we are always looking to add new and innovative products to our inventory.

Nov 1999

Windows 2000 on sale in 4 months.

Microsoft Corp.'s long-delayed Windows 2000 operating system for corporate and network computers will go on sale Feb. 17, officials of the software giant said. The system, successor to the high-end Windows NT family of products for desktop, laptop and server computers, will be released to manufacturers by the end of this year to prepare copies for the retail launch. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has said the Windows 2000 launch will be one of the company's most important, forming the foundation of all future operating systems and paving the way for the company to make deeper inroads into corporate computing.

Oct 1999

IBM to announce whopping 72GB hard drive.

The disk, dubbed UltraStar 72ZX, is aimed at high-end computing markets and in addition to having a super fast response time of about 4.9 milliseconds has the ability to store 7 billion "bits" of data in a square inch, according to IBM. The drive however won't be arriving until early 2000. Wished we could get our grubby hands on one of them sooner for a little test/torture run. If you take a look at our selection of high performance drives you'll notice we stock only the best.

Oct 1999

Western Digital recalls 400,000 hard drives.

Based in Irvine California and makers of high capacity hard disk drives Western Digital announced this week that it will recall approximately 400,000 of its flagship 6.8GB per platter Caviar desktop hard drives because of a faulty internal chip. The chip, which affects the disk drive motor, causes problems to erupt in about six to twelve months. The drives were manufactured between August 27 and September 24, therefore if you bought one recently be sure to check-just to be safe.

Sep 1999

Outrageous price for memory.

Recently the price of memory has surged way pass what most people consider reasonable, whether this is just age old greed or a legitimate suppy and demand problem remains to be seen.However prices have doubled and none of the major manufacturers have offered any explanation for the hikes.Hopefully prices will fall before y2k rolls in, otherwise we might not be too happy installing Windows 2000 which despite what others might suggest should really be installed with at least 128 megs for best performance.

Sep 1999

Next generation 3D accelerators.

Amazing the relatively short turnaround period that the major graphics chip manufacturers churn out faster and faster chipset.This holiday we will see the introduction of three major graphics accelerators.Nvidia has the Geforce256, which uses an internal 256bit data path with onboard T&L unit(transform and lighting) this would normally be done by the cpu, however with this hardware process implemented in the graphics chipset and supported by Dx7 the cpu cycles are freed up for more important task; in short this feature will bring exceptionally beautiful and very crisp looking levels to future games without the need for the most expensive cpu.S3 will be introducing their Savage2000 which will have very high fill rates somewhere in the region of 700Mtexels/s in addition to an onboard T&L unit.Both those products are outstanding in terms of their specs and features but most everyone(competition included)will tell you that they are anticipating 3dfx's next generation voodoo to have some huge performance figures when it's finally released.All three products will be faster than anything this side of the universe and they are not gonna be cheap: certainly for performance tweakers like myself the extreme performance justifies the price but for more everyday computer users or the occasional gamer its probably better to get whats top notch today at reduced price when the newer products are released. Go hereGeForce256 and Savage2000 for the specs.

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