After the big "Oops!" last week, InfoWorld reports that Intel has resumed shipment of its new 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 processor.

Hoping not to follow in the footsteps of Intel's announcement of the 800MHz FSB Pentiums last week, AMD is set to release it's new 64-bit chip on Tuesday. An article on CNet lays out the stakes for Intel's competitor.

An interesting note on OSNews points at a story coming out of Korea that some of the newer multiprocessor Macintoshes actually have a functioning USB 2.0 subsystem. The theory is that they are only lacking a driver for it.

According to reports from CNet, the new P4 (talked about on this site this morning) has been delayed due to a "glitch" in its production or design.

A report from CNET discusses a 38-year old nationalized US citizen (with a wife and 3 kids) that has been detained in solitary confinement since March 20. Mike Hawash is an employee of Intel. He is being detained as a "material witness", which means that (unlike someone charged with a …

A new review on Tom's Hardware gives the once-over to the new chips from Intel that have an 200MHz (quad-pumped to 800MHz) bus. The article's conclusion is that you see some substantial gains for data-heavy apps, but many others see only marginal gains from the new FSB. I found the …

Reports on CNet indicate that Sun officials are stating publicly that they are looking favorably at the AMD Opteron 64/32-bit processor for future machines. "Can we commit to using Opteron today? No," a spokesperson said. "Can we use it? Are we likely to use it? Yes."

An article on CNet this morning indicates that the outstanding lawsuits between Intel and VIA are now gone. However, the news isn't all good. The US manufacturer of CPUs and motherboard chipsets has agreed with the Taiwanese chip manufacturer to settle all outstanding lawsuits and to license the ability to …

No details yet on why it supports USB 2.0, but you can buy it here at ThinkGeek.

PCWorld discusses in this article AMD's new laptop chips. The company announced new low-power chips (25W dissipation max) and new high- power chips (75W dissipation max) aimed at the lightweight laptop and desktop replacement markets respectively.

Dell Computer is now releasing the Inspiron 8500 complete with the display I want to see on a future Mac laptop, a 1920x1200 pixel wide-aspect 15.4" display. Lots of pixels! Of course, it's a PC, so I won't have any of it, but some of you folks may find …

An article in the New York Times is touting the Maine statewide laptop program as a success so far. Maine began the program a year ago with an agreement for Apple to provide thousands of laptops each year so that 7th and 8th graders throughout Maine could have laptops as …

Intel, the huge microprocessor manufacturer, has released a paper about the Open Runtime Platform, a new execution environment. The trick here is that it is designed to be a high-performance platform for running other transportable platforms, like Java's JVM and Microsoft .Net's CLI, on multiple platforms (Intel-based, of course), including …

Yet another ridiculous, useful, and decidedly cool piece of software for the Macintosh. Sony Ericsson Clicker allows you to use a Bluetooth phone as a remote input device for a Macintosh with a Bluetooth adapter. Great if you need an impromptu controller for Keynote.

According to an article1 in EE Times UK, Neah Power Systems2 (of New York) is creating fuel-cell based batteries for laptops that can fit in existing bays. Their current statements predict hitting 150WH by the end of the year, which would be basically 3x the current crop of …

Tom's Hardware now has a review of the new Intel Centino or Pentium-M technology. The new CPU & chipset architecture is actually a platform for building laptops and incorporates most of the functionality into its base feature set. It may not be the fastest, but Tom's says that Intel is off …

If the IBM PowerPC 970 weren't enough reason, the fact that IBM is even thinking about, much less building a next generation chip should be enough to get Apple's attention. According to this article in InfoWorld, IBM is releasing preliminary information about the road map for the upcoming Power5 architecture …

PC Magazine has an article comparing the two common high-speed desktop buses, USB 2.0 and FirewWire. Not surprising, they found that USB 2.0 seldom lives up to the 480Mbps that it advertises and that FirewWire is better for use with consumer electronics devices.

According to an article on LinuxDevices.com, IBM is showing a new reference platform for a PDA based on Linux and IBM's PowerPC chip. Features include: PowerPC 405 32MB Ram 32MB Flash dynamic power management etc. etc. etc. IBM processor comparisons on the 405 series are available here.

I was interesting in figuring out what the effect of Apple moving to an IBM 970 CPU would have on their product line. Although they are not shipping (expected 2Q-2H 2003), there is some information about them available in the market based on test samples and presentations that IBM has …