It's been a busy week in the land of components, with announcements regarding both AMD and Intel. On Monday, AMD announced its new , the first to natively support the new SATA 6Gb/s standard. Not to be outdone, Nvidia announced the newest version .

Tuesday brought news that AMD's first six-core desktop processor . On Thursday, we caught a glimpse of a that would use light to transmit signals instead of copper. And on Friday, we learned that Intel's eight-core Nehalem-EX processors .

Whether or not you think that 3D is a just marketing gimmick, I think we can all agree that 2010 is shaping up to be the year of 3D. At this week's CeBIT conference in Germany, vendors that won't require dorky glasses to create a 3D effect (a topic that in the past).