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PC manufacturers are coming out with a slew of new notebooks containing Intel's Pentium-M processor, and executives claim that the underlying technology goes a long way toward improving the laptop experience.
Intel has delayed by months the release of the next three major versions of the Itanium processor, a new blow for the processor family, but the chipmaker also plans a change it said will boost the performance of its more widely used Xeon line.
Hewlett-Packard is expected to announce its first blade servers that use Intel's Itanium processor on Tuesday in the US, sources familiar with the product plans said.
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