GPUing
XGI announces distribution agreement with three major Taiwanese distributors. Gives hint on new GPUs: Volari Duo, V8 (http://www.xgitech.com/products/products.htm), etc.

Anandtech take a glimpse of ATI and NVIDIA mobile graphics (http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.html?i=1866) gaming parts, testing DX9 abilities of these two mobile graphic solutions.

Rumor mill: "Sources close to Nvidia suggest that the (Half-Life 2) bidding could have reached as much as $8 million (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11552) before it withdrew from the auction."

ATI's Radeon 9800XT (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11547), Half Life bundle to be launched in Alcatraz; Europeans get Munich.

Trends
Motor giant Ford is switching to Linux (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32837.html) for its sales systems, human resources, customer relations and infrastructure.

Paying Spammers (http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60431,00.html) Not to Spam - Founders of a new antispam service say they have developed a system to convince spammers to remove specific e-mail addresses from their mailing lists.

Upcoming
The Scoop on the New Raptor (http://www.storagereview.com/) - Information on WD's upcoming 10,000 RPM serial ATA Raptor drive, 74-gigabyte capacity.

NEC Corp. and Texas Instruments will be among the chip makers announcing silicon for PCI Express (http://www.eet.com/semi/news/OEG20030915S0016) at the Intel Developer Forum this week.

Newsweek reports that Apple expects to release iTunes for Windows (http://www.macnn.com/news/21109) next month.

* A visit to Dell (http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1648/), understanding the magic @ Hardware Analysis.