Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Athlon processor may make its long-sought leap into the server market when Sun Microsystems Inc. next week unveils its Cobalt division's low-end Internet-appliance server.

In the past, if you stumbled across a new visual metaphor, a new way of imagining information, you needed to scramble past the gatekeepers at Microsoft or Apple to get your vision onto other people's desktops, assuming you didn't have the funding to start your own software company. But the web enabled all of us to experiment with different lenses, and share those creations with others. Surely that change would result in more ways of seeing.

Intel aims at Transmeta with new chips Chip giant plans to power down its 2001 mobile offerings with a slew of new low-power chips, starting with an 'ultra-low power' mobile Pentium III.