Finally PCI Express based Creative X-Fi soundcards are coming out. This is pretty neat, zero power displays are starting to gain popularity. PCs are expected to hit the billion mark next year.

And while it's taken 27 years to reach that figure, it predicts that by 2015 there will be two billion PCs in use, that number boosted by BRIC - the name the industry gives for Brazil, Russia, India and China.