Trends in IT technology

Mid 1996

• Internet has 56 million users worldwide
• The Web (WWW) has 31 million users (IDC)
• The first JAVA chips (Sun)
• All on-line services in germany offer ISDN access (AOL, EuropeOnline, Compuserve)

September 1996

• Broad band Internet access via Satellite (DirecPC)

4th Quarter 1996

• Motorola delivers the PowerPC -620 at a clock speed of 180 to 250 MHz
• SONY delivers the first DVD players
• There ar 1,9 million ISDN connections in germany

1st Quater 1997

• SUN delivers the MicroJava-Processor
• INTEL delivers the P55C Pentium processor with MMX-Technology

Mid 1997

• All graphic cards have a video out/ TV out as standard equipment (ATI)
• 14' and 15' flat LCD monitors appear on the mass market (Samsung)
• Rewritable CDs (Mitsumi)

End 1997

• SUN introduces the fast UltraJava processor
• 3D graphic cards are standard equiplent of PCs (ATI)

Begin 1998

• 120 Mb floppies are standard equipment of PCs
• INTEL delivers the 64-bit processor P7 as follower of the Pentium Pro
• 17' flat monitors arrive on the mass market (Samsung)

Mid 1998

• 4 GigaByte Hard discs are standard equipment of PCs (Seagate)
• The Pentium Pro processor at 250 MHz standard entry equipement

End 1988

• 4,8 million ISDN connections in Europe (IDC)
• SONY presents the first DVD-R recorders

End 1999

• transition of the mass market to flat monitors (Samsung)
• passive ISDN cards cost 30$ (Teles)
• 10 GigaByte hard disks are standard equipment in PCs.
• Internet has 200 Million users worldwide
• the Web has 140 millions users (IDC)