Market research firm InQuest is hosting a conference in July which promises to be interesting. Platform99, to be held in San Jose on July 21-22, will cover platform strategies, semiconductors and system integration. InQuest says that will include the current hot debate about memory technologies, bus standards, chip architectures, microprocessor futures, host processing versus hardware acceleration of 3D geometry, real time MPEG2 encode, 3D sound and comms. Bert McComas, director of the conference, said that Platform99 will add perspective to anyone who has attended either the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) and WinHEC. He said the forum will help attendees to evaluate risks, opportunities, technology trends and strategic directions. There will be dozens of briefings from the major vendors as well as material from independent analysts. Sounds interesting to us and we plan to attend. For more information, and pricing information, go to Platform99 ®