S3 has offloaded their graphics business, and VIA is the buyer. ATi and Matox have both been pretty silent. Well, they missed it but are saying that they'll have a demo of their XBA Architecture this year, and a product shipping in 2001. I have trouble keeping up with this nutty RAM market. Seriously though, memory prices seem to be stable for the time being.
RAM is still less than a buck a megabyte, and that's nothing to complain about.
Aureal, the company that was on the cutting edge of soundcard technology when there was no cutting edge in sound card technology has filed for Chaper 11 . It looks like they're having a hard time. Their executive board left the company, not unlike rats fleeing from a sinking ship. If you haven't been following the situation, allow me to sum up. Creative sued Aureal over some patent or other, and lost the suit in court .