Uwe Scheffel van Tom's Hardware Guide heeft een verslag van het Intel Developer Forum online gemikt. In het verslag wordt geschreven over de Pentium IV (Willy), de Tehama chipset, IA-64 en Itanium, Foster en de Colusa chipset, Timna, AMD's 1.1GHz Thunderbird demonstratie, Serial ATA en USB 2.0. Hier een hap over Serial ATA, dat in 2001 ATA100 op zal volgen:
When this year is over the old ATA100 standard (also known as UDMA/100) for the parallel transmission of data for hard disks and CD-ROM's can be buried. The successor will be the Serial ATA standard. As the name implies, data transmission is serial. The individual hard disks using Serial ATA are connected using a four-wire cable. A standardized connector will be used for all drive types, i.e. 5.25", 3.5" and the 2.5" notebook versions. Two wires transmit the data for writes and the other two are used for reads. As Serial ATA is a direct connection (point-to-point connection) type, jumper settings such as Master and Slave will no longer be needed in the future. For compatibility reasons, adapters are intended to be made available for a transition period so that old hard disks can still be used. The serial ATA 1x standard (from 2001) permits a maximum data transmission rate of 1.5 GBits/s (approx. 150 MByte/s).
