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11/10 - 17-inch LCDs this Christmas are predicted to break "the $200 barrier".
Just as Infineon teamed up with Nanya to develop microchips, so Toshiba and NEC are joining ranks. Toshiba and NEC "will together develop process technology for chip circuitry widths of 45 nanometres". Fabrication plants or fabs typically cost in the billions of dollars.
Apple is predicted to move its consumer products—as opposed to its professional products—to Intel hardware first sometime in the first half of 2006: "the consumer product introduction first is the most likely scenario".
Intel is to release a new high end chipset anyday now, the 975X. Chipset was originally due in the first quarter of 2006, but has been moved up "to the middle of November".