James Fallows looks into Moore's Law and the extreme ultraviolet prototype for producing semiconductor chips and the unique partnerships used to develop it: "The EUV effort was launched, in 1997, as a kind of supercollaboration among entities that usually keep a clear distance from one another. Three national labs pooled scientists, who worked in a "virtual national lab." All of the money for research and development came from private companies, ones that are ordinarily fierce rivals."

Also, IBM is ready to start shipping new hard drives with the "pixie dust" (antiferromagnetically-coupled media) that they announced back in May: "The 3.5-inch desktop drives, called the Deskstar 120GXP, top out at a capacity of 120GB for $349 and will be available this month. The Deskstar drives also come in capacities of 80GB for $269 and 40GB for $169."
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