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Stocking Down

If you haven’t noticed, Intel and AMD stock have been pretty much in freefall lately. This is what is really happening: Intel will probably report a reasonably OK quarter for chips sales. European CPU sales aren’t particularly strong, but they

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Debates

(Got this from someone else as an email; we’ll be glad to attribute if we can get a source) Jim Lehrer: Welcome to the second presidential debate between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush. The candidates have

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Russian Computing

After getting that report about Durons, I asked Shato if he would like to write something about computing in Russia. He asked me to make some acknoweldgements, which I include here, then wrote what I find as absolutely fascinating piece.

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Home Networking: Routers

Routers Several companies are now producing hardware specifically meant for connecting a LAN to a WAN – a home network to the Internet. Such a device usually looks like a hub and can be had for $140-$200 US (mailorder) from

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Duron Report

One computer shop which often puts good hard news on its site here in Moscow had run some statistics on o’cing Durons (after I had suggested to do that in a letter :). Here are the results (they have tested

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CPU Companies: A Forecast

What AMD talked about AMD released its financial information, had some good news, had some bad news. The good news is that AMD slightly beat the earnings estimates, sold all its 3.6 million TBirds/Durons, and is optimistic they can sell