Month: February 2003

More than a few are getting wound up about this Fortune article. In it, the IBM executive in charge of servers says he believes that in five years, there will be only two players in the high-end microprocessor business: IBM

Got this email the other day: I’ve talked to you a few times . . . . I last wrote you asking you how in the hell the RIAA has managed track someone downloading files from Kazaa. I think I

While CPU and memory chips and video cards got faster, IDE hard drives have proven to be a rock of stagnation stability: 7200rpm. Now, finally, XBitLabs reports that Western Digital will announce 10,000 rpm IDE hard drives next Wednesday. Why

Dual DDR is coming, and the RDRAM advocates don’t like it. Understand The Real Matchup Some RDRAM geektards have taken some Granite Bay benchmarks and are jumping up and down saying that dual DDR is a big disappointment and this

For a very long time, I’ve been looking for or coining a word. I needed a term to describe the mental brown dwarfs and black holes in cyberspace. One with clear connotations of insult, but one focused on the target

It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere. For some strange reason, people who don’t overclock actually heat the room their computer is in. Talk about botched priorities! Unlike normal people like us who use radiators to cool things down, they use