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• Ultra-low power chip sleeps a lot

  Researchers at the University of Michigan have designed chips that use 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 per cent less in active mode than comparable processors, putting an end to overweight battery syndrome.

• Intel learns from insects to make 80-cores practical

  Researchers at chip giant Intel are looking to create insect-like exoskeletons that will help make 80-core processors work with today's software and hardware.

• Intel moves into volume with new chips

  Intel has begun to produce chips made on the 65-nanometer process, adding an optimistic note to what has been a somewhat tough month for the chip giant.

• NEC PC gets the chills

  Your car probably has a water-cooled radiator, and now the latest desktop PC from NEC do too.

• Intel offers US$10,000 for Moore's Law magazine

  Intel lives by Moore's Law, but it apparently doesn't have a copy of the magazine in which the law was first laid down.

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• Photos: Inside the Apple Macintosh Classic

  The Apple Mac is one of the most famous and easily recognisable personal computers ever manufactured. This photo gallery takes a look inside Mac Classic -- and what technology was like in 1991.

• Photo gallery: 35 years of Intel chip design

  A look at how Intel chips have evolved -- from the revolutionary 4004 to the teraflop-ready 80-core prototype of tomorrow.

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• NComputing X300

  NComputing's X300 provides a cost-effective way to hang up to six terminals off a single desktop PC using low-power, secure, easy to administer and quiet access terminals. It's not for power users, but is well suited to schools, business workgroups, libraries and internet cafes.

• IBM, Infineon tout magnetic memory

  IBM and Infineon will jointly present a paper this week that demonstrates how MRAM, one of the leading candidates to replace flash memory in mobile phones, could be ready for commercial production by 2005.

• Philips throws down chip gauntlet

  Royal Philips Electronics is to step up its competition with Intel and other chipmakers next year with a new mobile processor.

• AMD revs up transistor designs

  Researchers at Advanced Micro Devices report significant new design techniques that the company says will lead--eventually--to higher chip performance.

• 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.

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