Toshiba Corp next month starts sampling a 64M-bit synchronous dynamic memory chip that it says is smaller and offers better performance than its first generation part. The new one is in 0.35 micron CMOS and has access time of 40nS.
San Diego-based Patriot Scientific Corp is to sample its ShBoom PSC1000 RISC microprocessor in limited numbers next month, at $25. The stack architecture PSC1000 is designed for embedded processing.
What is the Year 2000 Problem? While people like Gartner Group Inc imply it is the most serious to face the computer user since the dawn of time and may cost $600,000m to fix. Others dismiss such claims as self-seeking alarmism, and say the real Year 2000 Problem will turn out to be all the companies whose shares were over-hyped on claims that they alone had the magic bullet to fix the problem going bust before 2000 when the problem turns out to be not nearly so serious as the doomsters say.
IBM Corp is getting lots of plaudits for its new big-screen yet ultra thin Thinkpad 560 – it measures 11.7 by 8.7 by just 1.2 thick and weighs 4 lbs 2 oz but the Wall Street Journal reveiwer points out that while IBM includes Lotus productivity software, it only supplies it on a CD-ROM. The ThinkPad 560 hasn’t got a CD-ROM drive…
