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Any news on the following high-demand technologies?

Universal Serial Bus (USB) 
	http://www.usb.org (503)264-0590
	Modular, _Powered_ I/O w/ neato hubs
	12Mbit/sec, up to 127 devices

Intel 430TX Chipset / PIIX3 Controller
	http://www.developer.intel.com/deisgn/pcisets/prodbref/430tx/index.htm	
	Concurrent PCI (2.1)
	built-in UltraDMA IDE (33MByte/sec)
	built-in USB
	support for SDRAM

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
	www.agpforum.org
	Souped up PCI slot for high performance VGA / HDTV

DVD CD-ROMs and hardware decoders

Any news would be greatly appreciated. 
  
Thanks,
Kevin