DDR2 is here, but there's more to it than meets the eye. Tim Dean takes a look at the good and bad of tomorrow's memory.

M18 chips aimed at multimedia mobile phones.

Flash memory branches to create new company.

But intense competition to push prices down 30 per cent this year.

Fast-booting PCs to take 40 per cent of the market by 2008.

Module makers cut purchases after being caught out by slack demand.

DRam and handset profits offset Flash and LCD slump.

Rumoured laptop will eschew hard drive in favour of Flash chips.

Enough space to store 2,000 songs, Samsung claims.

16GB Nand chips double read/write speeds.

OneDRAM chip promises 5x speed boost.

Taiwan and China to take over, analyst predicts.

Chipmaker talks up quad core progress.

Nist researchers claim major breakthrough.

Digital content and cheaper chips driving market.

Apple Computer has unveiled a version of its market-leading iPod that also plays videos and increased the iMac computer's ability to act as a home entertainment hub by adding a remote control.

Apple portables selling twice as fast as the Walkman.

Flash drives are the future, says electronics giant.

Out of the box water cooled graphics, now that's fresh.

The screen isn't great, but everything else about this notebook is very good indeed.