6/17/2000: An agreement on rights between Toshiba and Rambus will be able to affect to the whole industry

    The principal memory manufacturers and components of computer of the world are analyzing the possible consequences that a recent extrajudicial agreement might have as which Toshiba recognizes the intellectual property on the part of Rambus of one of the fundamental parts of the interface of synchronous memory more used in the current memoirs.
    Up to the date, Rambus had supported conversations with numerous companies, in more or less belligerent tone, claiming the payment for the supposed use of some of his patents. The agreement with Toshiba turns out to be certainly worrying, since it would favor very much the Rambus position in possible judgments for this question.
    Rambus might gain in the next years thousands of millions in royalties for this concept, what would be translated in an increase of the price of the memory, something that was still already predicted before this news was known...

6/12/2000: IBM presents his new portable ones

    New IBM ThinkPad A tienen like principal characteristic (leaving the separate price, of course) his connectivity. The characteristics of the new portable ones of IBM include, between other things, CDROM reader of even 24X or DVD-ROM, bay of Modular connection Ultrabay to connect peripheral, 16 MB of memory of video, light in the keyboard, ports RJ-11 and RJ-45 (modem and network ethernet), processors Pentium III for portable at 700 MHz speeds (or Celeron for portable to 500 MHz) with technology SpeedStep, 64 MB of extendable RAM to 512 MB, screen TFT of: 15 INCHES!! and an Ión-Litio battery with a duration of more than 4 hours.
    All this weighs, in the most advanced configuration, only 3,1 Kg; and of course, IBM gives guarantee of up to 3 years in his products. Finally, a portable computer of daydream that probably we never have in our knees...