The INQUIRER week in review - Keanu Reeves wins

That old lag Adamson Rust read a report from market research company iSuppli which suggested that Sun is being forced to use Intel chips because the AMD Opteron is too darn good, the ultimate irony, it appears. Here.

Avoiding the unlucky number four, ATI's new secret weapon appears to be the R420, a story you can read here.

In the head to head battle between Nvidia and other manufacturers, we reported on Tuesday that the firm is readying an Athlon 64 SP10 chip which is apparently codenamed Soundstorm.

Story number 9972 revealed that AMD is on target for a September Athlon 64 launch, and could well be squeezing in on the 30th of September, with a big bash at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. That story is here.

Is Microsoft using its considerable market clout to bosh Lindows on the head while it's in rising mode? That's what Michael Robertson from Lindows reckons, in this article here.

Our Egan Orion reckons that SCO might recycle AT&T's Unix blunder, pointing out that history should be an important subject in computer companies. That's here.

The AMD-Nvidia SNAP alliance continues. And in this article we discussed the taping out of the Crush K8S for the AMD64 platform. That's here.

The letters column made it into the top 10 with a ding-dong over whether overclockers have abandoned AMD for Intel. That's here.

And poor performers of the week? We note that 16 people read a picture story about a plastic blow up girl in a white van that we snapped at CebIT. µ