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Samsung SDI, the world's largest producer of cathode-ray tubes for PCs and television sets, is the first to produce a 15.1-inch model of an organic electroluminescent (OEL) display, company executives said.

Time Computers is marketing its latest desktop PC with the slogan "I am the Greatest", and to justify the claim it's packed it with 1GB RAM..

The slogan is reminiscent of boasts surrounding great boxing matches involving Prince Naseem Hamed or Lennox Lewis (surely Mohammed Ali - Ed). And Time's boast for the machine is that this is the first desktop PC to be launched in the UK with 1GB RAM.

NEW YORK (AP) - Motorola Inc. has developed a computer chip it says is 35 times faster than today's models and will cut the cost of devices such as cellphones and DVD players. The company said Tuesday that the new semiconductor combines silicon, the inexpensive material commonly used to produce chips, and gallium arsenide, a more expensive material that can transmit signals at much higher speeds.

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 28, 2001 - Intel Corporation Executive Vice President Paul Otellini today outlined how the company is driving computing capabilities to promote future industry growth. Otellini, in a speech to 4,000 technology industry engineers, developers and designers, said Intel will expand its product and technology development focus beyond sheer processor speed to bring to market fundamental technologies that will enable greater productivity and better experiences for computer users

Yesterday, Intel introduced the world's first 2 gigahertz (GHz) microprocessor and during his speech, Otellini demonstrated an Intel® Pentium® 4 processor operating at 3.5 GHz. Otellini noted that the Pentium 4 microarchitecture is expected to scale to 10 GHz during its lifetime.

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 28, 2001 - Intel Corporation today announced and demonstrated Hyper-Threading technology, a new processor design breakthrough, improving system performance by 30 percent. Intel's simultaneous multithreading design, originally code-named Jackson Technology, allows a single processor to manage data as if it were two processors by handling data instructions in parallel rather than one at a time. Using Hyper-Threading technology, data instructions are "threaded" as parallel streams for processing.

August 24, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Fujitsu Laboratory Ltd. said it has developed a new magneto recording technology that realizes a hard disk drive recording density of 100Gb per square inch, or about 2.5cm by 2.5cm.

Use of this technology enables a 2.5-inch HDD in a notebook PC to have capacity of about 110GB. According to the firm, it has accomplished the "highest recording density in the world" through the technology.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and HOUSTON, Aug. 22, 2001 - Intel Corporation and Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) today announced they will collaborate to help speed the development of wireless handheld communications devices and applications used to access and transmit data over the Internet.

Compaq also announced its support for the Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA) initiative. Intel PCA is a development blueprint for building wireless handheld communications devices that combine voice communications and Internet access capabilities.

ASCI White, a $110 million computer squeezed into enough refrigerator-sized units to fill a couple of basketball courts, was officially unveiled by scientists aiming to simulate nuclear tests the government has promised not to carry out for real.

As previously reported IBM built the beast from off-the-shelf processors with a souped-up version of its commercial operating system, AIX. ASCI White weighs as much as 17 full-size elephants, takes as much cooling as 765 homes and can do in a second what would take a calculator 10 million years, IBM says.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14, 2001 - Intel Corporation today announced that it has developed a new software technology called Light Field Mapping (LFM) that helps to create more life-like 3-D images for interactive applications, such as games, by correctly modeling light reflection properties of 3-D objects. This technology will allow game developers and animators to use more realistic objects and scenes in their 3-D creations.

NIKKEI NET is reporting a Hitachi breakthrough in chip technology, allowing it to embed microchips into paper, without fracturing.
Hitachi will use the smart chip to be embedded into bank notes, cheques and other important pieces of paper, according to the news wire.

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