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JEDEC Thinking Ahead:

It is great to see these guys getting ahead of themselves on this.

The group, part of the JC42 memory committee of the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, is expected to present an initial concept for a standardized fully buffered DDR2 DIMM in September. Desi Rhoden, JEDEC chairman, said present buffered DIMMs will be unable to handle the memory requirements of the type of high-speed servers that would run on DDR2 at speeds of 667 to 800Mbits/s.

Cookies, No Milk:

Have you ever heard some geek start talking about your cookies and immediately were filled with dread that he was in your kitchen while you were sleeping. HowStuffWorks fills you in.

In this edition of HowStuffWorks, we will take a look at the basic technology behind cookies, as well as some of the features they enable. You will also have the opportunity to see a real-world example of what cookies can and cannot do using a sample page that we developed here at HowStuffWorks.

New Diamonds:

In the online edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (DOI: 10.1021/ja035177) Chen's team reports that the first diamonds reached diameters of about a quarter of a millimetre. While that is far too small for gems in wedding rings and necklaces, it is ideal for use in industrial cutting tools and abrasives.