Intel , despite the recent recall of 820 chipsets supporting 133MHz SDRAM memory due to a faulty MTH (Memory Translator Hub), has been on the road to supporting 133MHz after all. The chipset is called the Intel 815 and Intel …

Quantum announced the Fireball lct20 hard drive, just three months after the release of its Fireball lct15 . The difference is the Fireball lct20 drives contain support for the Ultra ATA/100 interface and utilize the latest areal densities that yield …

Plextor breaks the previous 4x CD ReWritable barrier by more than doubling it with the PlexWriter 12/10/32A which features a 12X write, 10X rewrite, and 32X maximum read speed for CD-ROM media. Plextor claims the 10X-rewrite speed enables users to …

Microsoft has announced that the development of Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me) consumer operating system is complete and that the product has been released to manufacturing. According to Microsoft, Windows Me focuses on the home computing experience by enhancing areas …

IBM has tripled the capacity of its Microdrive from 340 MegaBytes to a full GigaByte! The Microdrive,known as the worlds smallest working disk-based hard drive, measures in at under an inch and a half by an inch and three quarters …

Philips has announced that its forthcoming Thunderbird Avenger sound card will be based on QSound Labs audio technology. The Thunderbird Avenger will support QSound technologies including 3DInteractive (positional 3D hardware DSP processing), Multi-Speaker System (stereo-to-quad processing that supports 5.1 speaker …

Network Appliance , a provider of network-attached data access and content management solutions, has announced a collaborative effort in conjunction with Intel and Seagate on a new protocol for direct, memory-to-memory file access that will dramatically enhance the performance of …

The Rio Division of S3 has announced it will license Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) technology from Dolby Laboratories for use in its third-generation Rio digital audio players. AAC is an audio format standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) …

Dell is breaking into the digital home theatre market in a roundabout way with the Dell Digital Audio Receiver. The new appliance enables digital audio stored on any PC in any room in the home to be distributed to remote …

Panasonic has announced July as the date the latest 4.7GB DVD-RAM drives and media will be available in “volume”. These second generation drives will fully comply with the DVD Forums DVD-RAM format and will be able to read 4.7GB single-sided …