September 8th, 2004
CNet | Dresden plant powers AMD surge

A sprawling computer chip factory near the war-scarred German city of Dresden is forcing a shift in momentum in the battle between two U.S. technology superpowers.

Advanced Micro Devices’ $2.5 billion plant houses a collection of high-tech manufacturing tools and automation processes that industry experts say rivals or beats those of the company’s much larger archenemy, Intel.

I am of course writing this on an eMachines laptop powered by the AMD Athlon 3200+ CPU :)

September 8th, 2004
Wired | Slide Rule Still Rules

This article I am dedicating to my father. He had loaned me his slide rule for a class at school and of course I lost it. I did the same to his first calculator as well. They would have been rare antiques or family heirlooms if I had kept them well.

September 8th, 2004
Neowin.net | Maths to bring e-commerce to its knees

e-commerce is dependent on encryption technologies for secure online transactions. and encryption is heavily dependent on the mathematics of prime numbers. This article is about a mathematician who has proposed a theory of prime numbers which may have a profound impact on secure ecommerce systems.