Many hardware sites are reporting a ZD story about Intel getting round to producing its cut-down Celeron processor using a 100MHz system bus, as reported here and here in prehistory.

Intel's obviously in a bit of a dither about this. The second of the stories linked to above tells how Intel says it can do this whenever it wants.

looks here at a snazzy Sony digital device which uses Firewire IEEE-1394, the interface that dare not speak its name in Jason Zilla's USB 2.0 division at Intel.

Sharky Extreme has posted a buyer's guide to high end performance systems which you can find

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Hardware Central talks about Rambus memory for video, a piece which can be found

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Interested in cooling? Take a gander at

, where there's all sorts of fascinating stuff about aluminium water jackets and the like.

The extremely good

, has posted a die picture of the Pentium 4. Isn't it pretty? ®

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