HWRoundup Yes, the Japanese market, once more, has advance news, pictures and even product, with good old Pricewatch (http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/article/20010308/at133.htm) showing 1.33GHz and 1.3GHz Athlons for sale in Old Akihabara. You'll probably see these in London's Tottenham Court Road in about 1000 years...

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There's more about this over at our old friends (cough) site puzzlingly called Xbitlabs (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/). That site claims AMD will use Snobit 2001 at Hangover to formally announce the 1.3GHz parts, and also show new cores for the Afflatus family.

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JC notes here (http://www.jc-news.com/pc/) that the Great Satan of Perspiration (Compaq), is bunging AMD processors into its business notebooks. We're still waiting, but are reliably informed a number of tier one players will put K7 mobiles into notebooks, eventually...

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Arstechnica looks here at the kind of conspiracy (http://www.arstechnica.com/) that could only emanate from the USA. The country which tried to kill Fidel Castro by detonating his cigar is investigating a world-wide hack from Russia. Our own John Leyden is writing his own take on this right now.

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Kyle's Hard OCP (http://www.hardocp.com/) has an interesting reference to how Tiffany lamps may have damaged 3DFX. Unfortunately, eBay seems to be down again. It's not using Sun kit, is it?

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A weekly guide to CPU and video card prices (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1432) has popped up on Anand's site.

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Thanks to Hexus.net for pointing us to this piece on picking a Peltier over at Dan's Data (http://www.dansdata.com/pelt.htm).

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Iwill has gawn and released its BD133 mobo, according to this piece by Jon Hou over at Fullon 3D (http://www.fullon3d.com/). (Whatever happened to FIC's Transmeta device -- the Aqua Marina or whatever it was called? Anyone know, or do we have to go to Taipei to find out?)

Skol! ®

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