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June 6, 2001 . . .
AMD Introduces World's Most Powerful 1.4GHz AMD Athlon™ performance processor,
and the 950MHz AMD Duron™ processor.
The 1.4GHz AMD Athlon based systems with Double Data Rate memory continue to outperform
1.7GHz Intel Pentium™ 4 systems by up to 40 percent.
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June 19, 2000 . . .
Advanced Micro Devices launches the first members of its new Duron family of
low-cost processors, running at 600 MHz, 650 MHz and 700 MHz.
The Duron offers a speedier 200-MHz system bus,
AMD's Enhanced 3DNow instructions and a larger on-chip memory cache than the K6-2.
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February 7, 2000 . . .
Corel Corp. is taking over Inprise/Borland Corp. in an all-stock
deal valued at $2.44 billion US. The resulting company will be a Linux
powerhouse. The combined organization, under the Corel name with headquarters in Ottawa, Canada.
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December 23, 1999 . . .
The Hubble Telescope's computer gets an upgrade. The old computer is based on an Intel 386.
The new one is an Intel 486 & 20 times faster with six times the memory.
There are 3 computers for redundancy, each has two megabytes of memory.
(jeez, someone should send them a few 8meg simms)
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November 1999 . . .
Intel unveiled new details about its upcoming line of 64 processors and announced the name
of the first 64 processor, to be called the Intel® Itanium™ processor. Previously known by the
code name Merced, the Itanium processor employs a 64-bit architecture.
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October 4, 1999 . . .
IBM has set a new computer data storage world-record of 35.3 billion data bits
per square inch on a magnetic hard disk -- a 75 percent increase over the
20-billion-bit milestone the company achieved less than five months ago.
The 10,000 RPM Ultrastar 72ZX is the world's highest capacity drive at 73
gigabytes (GB).
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July 14, 1999 . . .
IBM today announced the availability of 1 GB SDRAM
DIMMs for PC servers and work stations. These
are the highest-density industry-standard DIMMs available on the
market today. To achieve a 1 GB density on a standard 168-pin DIMM, IBM
utilizes its proven stacking technology, enabling the highest possible
memory density on a card.
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June 21, 1999 . . .
Japanese electronics companies have developed a
micro-machine the size of an ant that can crawl around thin pipes,
inspect and even fix problems at power plants. The box-shaped robot
is only 5 mm long x 9 mm wide x 6.5 mm high.
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June 17, 1999 . . .
IBM announced today it has started
shipping the IBM 340 megabyte microdrive, the world’s smallest hard disk drive.
The microdrive has a disk platter the size of a large coin and weighs less
than a AA battery.
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