VIA seem to be re-focusing themselves on the market and attacking it from a different angle, meaning who seriously would want to be in the middle of NVIDIA and ATI at the moment? Meaning 2 is better than one - but sandwiched in there - no way!

Within the digital home Intel still state that a wired 'hard' backbone is important. Whilst using the powerlines within the home is not a new idea, the Homeplug alliance is taking it to the next level.

While at IDF you hear a lot about the future technologies as the current 'new' technologies have just been deployed. Wireless connectivity is no different, while we are hearing a lot about WiMAX and other technologies, Intel have updated us on the plans for 802.11n.

The Universal 3-D Project has been formed for several years and has the aim to bring 3-D images to mainstream applications. This will work by creating and deploying a single format which allows the applications to share the 3D data.

With all of the enhancements in systems today it is a suprise that we still have to use the DOS styled BIOS to configure and give our systems the performance edge. Intel are driving towards having a better BIOS, with full support for this within the next Windows Operating system - Vista.