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• HP: For circuits, swap silicon for molecules

  With a recent breakthrough in making circuits with molecules, Hewlett-Packard hopes to change chip history and expand its own role in the process.

• Lenovo touts notebooks, Olympics push

  Lenovo's quest for worldwide acceptance will begin at the upcoming Winter Olympics.

• Intel to throttle power by enhancing silicon

  Intel will try to further cut power consumption in its next generation of chips by using improved strained silicon, along with transistors that block power to other circuits, and other added features.

• Nanotech golf ball corrects its own flight

  Scientists are trying to use nanotechnology to cure diseases, ameliorate the energy crisis and reduce golf scores.

• Intel produces chips for the next generation

  Intel said it has produced chips with the 65-nanometer manufacturing process, a strong sign the company will continue to keep pace with Moore's Law.

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• Photos: The digital heroes of WW2

  As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.

• 'Strained silicon' to pump up chips

  Processor powerhouses IBM and Intel are set to reveal their plans to use the 'strained silicon' technique to build faster, power-efficient chips--and maybe break free of Moore's Law.

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• Intel produces chips for the next generation

  Intel said it has produced chips with the 65-nanometer manufacturing process, a strong sign the company will continue to keep pace with Moore's Law.

• CPU Survival

  The exploding costs of fabrication facilities, combined with the technical hurdles of the next generation of chip design seem like unassailable hurdles for the microchip vendors and manufacturers.

• iMac report: for the cool or the fool?

  Reactions to Apple Computer's new flat-panel iMac are ranging from "ooh" to "huh?"

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