Lots of announcements in the computer business:
- Intel unveils the 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 which will be the last iteration of the Pentium 4 until the newer Prescott designs come out later this year. It’s slightly faster than the 3.0 Pentium 4 and a whole lot more expensive.
- In his WWDC Keynote Steve Job announces the new PowerMac G5 tower systems based on IBM’s PowerPC 970 chip. Also updates to OS X, more iTunes and iPod sales figures and the Safari web browser, fresh from chasing Microsoft off the Apple platform has gone gold.
- ATI is unveiling a motherboard chipset with Radeon 9100 and Mobility Radeon 9100 based integrated graphics processors. The integrated graphics version is crippled compared to the real Radeon 9100, only two pipelines instead of four and all of the DirectX 9 programmable shader support has been removed leaving a Direct X 8.1 chip. Anyone who wants to play games should buy a graphics card to add to their system.
- With the release of the latest version, Microsoft has changed the name of the PocketPC operating system to Windows Mobile 2003.
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