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The Year 2001 will bring a few excitements and jeers during the course of its run. We here at CALROG.COM decided to try out our Year 2001 "predictions" for fun. Keep in mind these are brainstorms-- the ultimate time-frames of such will be determined in the coming future.

Q1 2001:

- Intel will release new "Coppermine128" Celerons with a 100 MHz FSB. The new CPUs will introduce first at 800 MHz.

- DDR-SDRAM will become widely available through all forms of distribution. PC1600 SDRAM will dwindle away slowly as 133 MHz FSB Athlons become more commonplace.

- Microsoft will begin beta-testing for Internet Explorer 6.0 (late in the quarter); more XML features will be implemented with this pre-release.

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Q2 2001:

- Nvidia will release the successor to the GeForce2 Ultra graphics card. The graphics card will be more powerful, and keep the $400-500 price-tag in place for high-end graphics.

- The Duron CPU will win a larger market-share in the budget PC market. "Imitations" of the SiS 730S chipset will arrive, and offer better performance for the dollar.

- New domains such as .pro, .shop, etc., will have a larger minority stake in the ".com" world. The .TV domain will crumble and die off, after Internet users find this to be just a "Year 2000 fad".

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Q3 2001:

- Intel releases the 1.8 GHz Pentium 4. RDRAM prices will drop to price-parity with typical SDRAM (but still sucks in our opinion).

- Matrox files for bankruptcy, or sells out to ATI or Nvidia.

- Broadband communications will be available to virtually anyone in the U.S. (either DSL, cable, or satellite).

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Q4 2001:

- Microsoft releases its final beta of Whistler.

- Celerons will be above the 1 GHz mark, possibly as high as 1.2 GHz. The Duron will be at 1.66 GHz clock speed (133 MHz DDR)

- The format MPEG-4 will be on the sh*tlist of Hollywood executives, as piracy will be rampant at this time period. (With mainstream systems approaching or surpassing the 2 GHz mark, MPEG-4 encoding will be a much "quicker" process).

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