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EE Times is carrying a rather interesting article that talks about a new generation of CD-RW that promises to be 3x as fast and have 3x the capacity as current drives. It's also expected to scale to 4x and 5x.

From the article:

A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about nVidia buying over certain 3dfx patents. No this article isn't about me hearing wrong, its an interview with nVidia's Brian Burke on FiringSquad about the deal. Check it out over here.

It's a Friday or Saturday night... you've nothing to do and you've got some electronic components lying around the house. How about modifying that cheap translucent PS/2 mouse to give it a trippy blue glow? Well Ellis (of geeknews.com) and his dad finished moding
a translucent mouse to do just this! Check out how they did it and more here

Ripped this straight off Ars
The Tech Report has offered up a head-to-head comparison of the AMD T-Bird contra Duron. Both of these CPUs are
hard hitters, but with the Duron running less than a yearly subscription to the Wall Street Journal, the question of
price/value demands attention.

There's this CNET story regarding the Serial ATA 1.0 Draft being released. Looks like the replacement for IDE is getting closer - a peak transfer rate of 150 MBs per second sounds pretty sweet to me.

That's right folks, graphics giant NVIDIA made a small acquisition in the form of 3dfx's patents and technologies. This will surely make the graphics industry more interesting since competition is slowly being eliminated - so what do you think?

AnandTech have done a comparison of Intel-CPU chipsets on Linux
here. It talks about performance, stability and support issues for the various chipsets;
apparently an Athlon chipset comparison is due shortly. This is certainly an excellent followup to AnandTech's October comparison of video cards
under Linux.

Matrox have been shipping their G450 cards for the past month or so hoping to keep up with competition from ATi and nVidia. The 3D stats for this card are far from pretty but its got some goodies for people who aren't mad fraggers. Check it out here.

A new workstation graphics card equipped with 64 MB DDR SGRAM challenges NVIDIA's Quadro2 Pro. Tomshardware let both graphics cards fight it out on Athlon, Pentium III and Pentium 4 test platforms.

Can check out the preview for this baby over here. Sad though that it won't be released for consumers, so you'll need to get it by buying some overpriced Dell or something like that. Imagine Q3 1600x1200@60fps (didn't I already say that?).