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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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  Dear carriers: More walking, less talking

  Sometimes, a well-placed and well-timed letter can make all the difference. Other times, it can make no difference at all and even hurt your case. This week's missive by the Competitive Carriers' Coalition, I would suggest, falls into the latter category.

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• How to save telecom costs

  If you want the CEO to sit up and take notice, find a way for IT to save the company money. One way is to look outside IT for cost savings.

• 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.

• What drives Ferrari's Schumacher?

  Dieter Gundel, head of racetrack electronics at Ferrari, delves into the nuts and bolts which make Formula 1 star Michael Schumacher hum.

• Are you ready for AI?

  Artificial intelligence has gone beyond a gimmick to become a business tool you will almost certainly deploy in the future. But, as Simon Sharwood discovers, you may already be using AI without even knowing it.

• '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.

• Disposable mobile phones, anyone?

  "Talk, then toss," is becoming a mantra in a small corner of the mobile phone industry. A new breed of wireless handsets, expected to hit the market later this year, is low-cost, extremely easy to use and disposable.

• iMac report: for the cool or the fool?

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

• Practical nanotechnology

  Nanotechnology is constantly finding itself in the headlines. But are microscopic machines an inevitable part of our future, or just another hype-heavy get-rich-quick ruse?

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