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Sega's revival could be cut short if Sony's proposed new machine lives up to advance word. Sony says it will be powered by a revolutionary new chip called the "emotion engine" that will enable it to render lifelike images while simultaneously handling interactive audio and network play. Scheduled to debut in Japan in March 2000 and in North America late next year, it will be Internet-ready (like Dreamcast), capable of running current-generation PlayStation software (key to maintaining a loyal fan base) and equipped with enough ports to make it the electronic centerpiece of the future networked...
...really a supercomputer that can't be exported to hostile countries. I'm not sure what I'll do with so much power--probably work toward world peace or play poker, as usual. Still, it'll be a comfort. In the meantime, I've been sampling the latest, fastest chip off the block: a 650-MHz Athlon, from Advanced Micro Devices. The new chip, also known as the K7, is slated to ship later this month on selected Compaq Presario and IBM Aptiva 865 machines. For the first time in ages, beleaguered AMD has a speed edge over rival Intel...
Compaq lent me a preproduction Presario that comes with the Athlon chip and all the dressings (128 megs of RAM, DVD drive and so on). It's certainly a match for the Dell Dimension XPS T500, which I wrote about in March on the heels of Intel's launch of the Pentium III. In fact, it's faster--at least, according to the specs and benchmark tests conducted by various know-it-all trade magazines. But what does that mean to me? To find out, I tried a few real-world tests. It took me 48 sec. to install Hoyle...
With the game all but decided, Harvard added one more score as sophomore midfielder Robin Lockwood scored her first goal of the season, netting a high chip shot. Sophomore Meghan O'Brien and freshman defender Katie Urbanic assisted...
CmdrTaco loves the fast-chip story. Someone submitted the tip anonymously in the form of a link to a story about a new breed of microprocessors at a gaming site called FiringSquad. "An engineering sample of a 600-Mhz processor," says the Commander, reading. "Cool...