Some interesting goings-on in the Microsoft trial at the moment, about that company's relationships with chip manufacturers AMD and Intel. Info here and a full transcript here, thanks leperMessiah.
Dan's been putting stuff into his drive bays. Fans, USB headers, temperature readouts, you name it.
Microsoft are apparently working on a non-uniform memory access system for their .Net server products. This is useful for many-CPU systems and has previously only been seen on high-end unix variants.
TweakTown have an article about AMD vs Intel with an eye on the future.