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Intel has formally launched 'Skulltrail', its two-CPU gaming motherboard that's ready for both AMD's CrossFire and Nvidia's SLI multi-GPU technologies.

Skulltrail  can take two quad-core 3.2GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors - essentially a pair of server-oriented Xeon CPUs with gamer-friendly branding, which is why they cost £700 a pop. The board itself - now officially dubbed the D5400XS costs around £400, The 800mhz FB DIMM memory is going to be around £600 for 4GB, Throw in a pair of AMD or Nvidia graphics cards for co-operative rendering, and it's clear Skulltrail-based systems are going to cost a pretty penny and to what end as for gaming even programs that scale well on 4 cores like Crysis struggle to scale on 8 cores and are in effect slower as a result, perhaps Intel's next rollout will be the answer as its rumoured that the  X48 chipset boards will break cover in March!

Recently unveiled to the press and Trade at the recent Spanish Trade show the Xperia X1 is  Sony Ericcson's first product in the new Xperia range

and the companies first smart phone to run on the Windows Mobile platform, not only that but it is rumoured that the phone will be the first device to run Windows Mobile 6.1

Technically this phone will pack pretty much all you could want in this kind of device(High speed web access 3.5G HSDPA/HSUPA/EDGE, Quadband, Assisted GPS, Mobile Outlook and Mobile office, Handwriting recognition and 3.2MP camera with flash) and do it in some style, what with its Arc Slider design, Classy metal case

3inch 800x600 TFT touchscreen display and Icon driven menu system, not only that but the phone will have the power under the hood to run all those vital applications

as it looks as if there'll be a Qualcomm 7200 processor running at 528mhz, ATI Accelerated graphics and upto 400mb RAM.

Sony Xperia X1 Product page