The sale is part of a strategy to pull out of non-core markets.

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As it turns out, it runs a quad-core version of AMD's new Temash chip, which is being billed as the first quad-core, x86-based SoC. (There's also a dual-core version.) Built into the chip is an HD Radeon 8000 series GPU with AMD's Graphics Core Next architecture, so in theory you should be able to pull off PC-caliber gaming even on a tablet.

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The latest dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPUs due to arrive in tablets this year should pull ahead of Atom even more, especially when bolstered by powerful graphics such as Nvidia.

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Instead, the Conservative leader imagines a welfare system where ministers in Whitehall pull fiscal strings which encourage people towards his party's core values of hard work, saving, marriage and having children (when you can afford to).

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The pull back isn't necessarily bad news for Dell's core business, or its customers--if it allows the company to focus on other things.

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Announcement : Today launching pull in of low power processors, moving low power into 3rd generation Intel Core processors, at 7 watts, versus 10 watts announced in September.

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