In this Technology Review from MIT Magazine of Innovation,
Joe Jacobson contends printed logic
could give rise to an open-source hardware movement where chips are
custom-designed via the Internet and printed by the consumer in about the same
time it takes to print out a Web page. You could, says Jacobson, “download the
chip design from the Web, tie in some modifications from some guy in India, and
boom—out comes the device.â€

As the technology-rich Indian cities of
Bangalore and Madras emerge as the new silicon centers of the far east,
Pittsburgh-based TimeSys Corporation (www.timesys.com) takes a page
from its American experience by launching TimeSys India Private Limited
in the southern city of Coimbatore, from All Linux Devices.

O Linux interviews Sergey Brin of Google.com.

Business Wire on NewsAlert: Force Computers, a Solectron company and a leader in embedded computing,
today announced it will support the Linux operating system on its DECtalk
Text-To-Speech (TTS) speech synthesis technology for StrongARM and Intel
processor-based wireless devices.

The Software Group Limited releases Linux drivers and
administration utilities for its SGP hardware adapter to the public domain under the Free Software
Foundation’s General Public License, version 2, from Linux PR.

LinuxDevices.com offers The Embedded Linux Newsletter for the week of October 26, 2000.

Ambivalent article on CNET News concerning peer-to-peer networks and business.

Business Wire reports, Intel Corporation’s
Dialogic subsidiary today announced that its broad range of CompactPCI (cPCI) building block
products will now include full support for the Linux operating system.

Linux PR reports, together, the companies
intend to develop and offer the industry’s smallest footprint Linux operating
system and graphics solution for new IA’s, such as hand held computers, set
top boxes and web pads.

Piranha, Inc.,
an innovator in data compression solutions, today announced a letter of intent
to acquire JJT Incorporated, a closely held Austin, Texas company specializing
in digital imaging and database system sales. Piranha products are available on Linux, Windows and
Macintosh systems, reports PRNewswire.