Bruce Gain

Intel claims its integrated graphics processors are now good enough to play your favorite 3D games. With the launch of Intel's GMA950, are Intel's boasts based on reality - or simply the stuff of marketing pipe dreams?

DDRAM comes into its own right for mainstream and performance PC applications while muscling out SDRAM and Rambus. Here's our analysis of the world of PC memory as it is being shaped by DDR. We also take a look at GDRII and GDRIII.

Here's a short primer on what kind of applications are really impacted by HT. In addition, Intel turns up the heat by putting HT as the focus of a new line of compilers. We also take a look at an Intel patent that hints at where HT may take Intel in the future.

Does Hyper-Threading signal the end of the Megahertz race? We take a look at how it works, and what the impact may be on the CPU wars.