AMD & Intel

ATI has made chipsets for Intel motherboards for years now. A few months ago AMD bought out ATI. When that happened, Intel began to question AMD. They wanted to know if AMD's ATI portion would continue to create chipsets for them. Despite the constant AMD & Intel competition, AMD has decided it benefits both companies if they continue to do what ATI has been doing. Perhaps this agreement will lead to a healthier competitive tie between Intel & AMD.

Should AMD keep supplying Intel with chipsets for their motherboards?

AMD R600

Ever since AMD officially bought ATI with their own stock they have been yet to turn out a new generation of GPUs. However the acclaimed R600 series is soon to be released. Their R630 model, specifically, is expected to be the first GPU to make proper use of the PCI-E 2.0 bus now equipped on motherboards. Along with the new bus, the not so surprising GDDR4 will make its way to the high-end AMD video cards. Most of the R630 derivatives will come equipped with 512 MB of on-card devoted memory.

Has AMD put off their next-gen graphics cards for too long?

Microsoft Operating Systems

Just weeks after Vista's official release Microsoft made claims saying every 2-2.5 years they'll develop and release a new operating system. If this is to be believed that would mean service packs would be a thing of the past. Without service packs it would stand to reason that Microsoft would have more time to work on their operating systems. However, it may also mean that due to their extreme focus on the newest operating system, updates for the current one would be simple and incomplete.

If Microsoft stands by their word, would quicker operating system release dates be beneficial?

iPods Go Full Flash

It looks like Apple's hottest selling handheld media device is finally ditching the traditional magnetic storage for the more recent flash memory substitute. This switch will make iPods cost significantly more, but at least they'll be worth it now. Apple has had a flash memory based model of their product for a couple years now. However that model has had little storage until recently. Perhaps after switching to this memory Apple will increase their popularity among the masses.

Does this switch to flash memory make an iPod more attractive?