11/3 - Practice makes perfect. Rambus is "becoming better at managing multiple litigation cases" (Reuters).

The first Intel 65 nanometer chip "in production" is the Pentium D 900 series, code name Presler. The chip is actually already shipping and is set to appear in products early in 2006.

Maxtor's new external hard drives, one of which reaches a terabyte storage capacity by putting together two 500 GB hard drives, will be available soon for less than a dollar a gigabyte.

Just as Intel did with Centrino, so it is doing again with a processor developed for RIM's new BlackBerry. The technology packaged in the new RIM device works together so as to form a system to improve overall performance. RIM's Chief Executive reported: "The speed of it is really a system experience. Though you may think it's the network, it's often other things".

One of the functions of ATI's new X1000 series graphics cards is to perform tasks other than graphics. ATI's processor is capable of doing other things as well. One of these "other things" is to take video in one format and convert that same video to another format, with a smaller size, for example. Just like sound cards offload sound processing and graphics cards offload graphics processing, giving the CPU a much-needed break, so the new ATI card can offload other non-graphics functions from the CPU. Though the technology is immature and has some rough edges, initial experiments indicate a performance leap of 5 times transcoding done by the fastest CPU's! Writes an analyst at ExtremeTech: "Every manufacturer of video transcoding software should be absolutely beating down a path to ATI's door right about now".

AMD grabbed market share from Intel in the third quarter. Not only did they beat Intel to market in x86 server dual-core technology but the performance of their chips is as good or better on many benchmarks. Let's make no mistake. Intel introduced a dual-core chip before AMD. However, the entry of Intel's dual-core technology into the x86 server market was many months later than AMD.