Some other events have occurred quietly.
Intel has hired Computer chip design engineers, by the team loads, from both Compaq and HP. These teams have already been assigned design task on various releases of the Itanium IA-64 architecture for future products.
Also during this time, a chip war is getting running rampant in the Pentium line. Intel also had announced a new breakthrough in chip making technology using ultra violent rather than visible light. They have also just announced a new packaging necessary for both CPU heat removal and better connections from chip to pins. Basically the chip and the package are to be manufactured as one.
Also Intel has better defined their future product line. They intend to move into networking - in particular the products that Cisco, Lucent, and Northern Telecom would require for their product line. Intel intends to ignore the low end of the market (NICs, embedded processors, etc).
The Kursk has been raised and is heading for port:
Kursk Information
The leaves are changing color. Anybody notice little things these days?