IBM develops new technology for liquid crystal displays used in laptop computers. Eizo announced FlexScan L461 16-inch LCD monitor. NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America announced price reductions on its line of NEC MultiSync LCD monitors. NEW IBM joins with Seiko Epson Corp. in Japanese venture to develop logic chips for cell phones and handheld computers using 0.13-micron technology. Intel unveils first generation Xeon Processors based on NetBurst architecture.
Equator introduces StingRay reference board for set-top box designs.
AMD rolls out notebook chips, calls them Athlon 4s. NEW Apple is pre-installing Mac OS X together and Mac OS 9 on all new Macs now shipping. Company says they are two months ahead of schedule. Microsoft and Intel announce Windows Media Support for Intel s XScale. Apple ships Java-based WebObjects 5 for web publishing and enterprise application development.