Sony has finally released a Blu-Ray player, six months after Toshiba released a HD-DVD player. Sales of Core 2 Duo chips are slow. So much for Microsoft's Windows Media Player DRM, it's been cracked. IBM, Samsung, Infineon and Chartered say they're 45 nanometer ready.

The working circuits, said the firms in a joint statement, were "proven in silicon" and put together at the IBM 12-inch fab plant in East Fishkill, NY, where the joint development team hatches its plans.