Under the hood, the existing pentaband 3G radio gives way to China's proprietary TD-SCDMA standard, and the ARM 11 processor gets a 20MHz speed bump to 700MHz.

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Blessed with height, great speed and an impressive arm, Pryor reminded many of former Texas Longhorn great Vince Young (more on him later), including the Longhorns who aggressively recruited him.

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McQuaid had his back turned when Cooke came in at full speed and raised his left arm just before impact.

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We weren't able to squeeze many details out of ARM reps, who remained mum about the demo components, including clock speed, manufacturer and even fabrication size.

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As a flatpicker, he used a traditional tear-shaped medium gauge nylon flatpick and was known for his speed, tone and precision -- with a little extra arm motion.

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East's talk is a bit long on theory and short on practice as of today -- a Samsung Chromebook isn't going to make Gordon Moore have second thoughts -- but it's food for thought in an era where ARM is growing fast, and even Microsoft isn't convinced that speed rules everything.

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While it's no Jelly Bean, the Maximus-tuned version of HTC's Android 4.0 flavor appears to give Sense a shot in the arm, taking care of lag in the launcher and live wallpapers in addition to delivering a healthy overall speed boost.

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Rather than speed up the clock to goose performance, Intel (and all its rivals, including AMD and ARM) has turned to multiple cores to get work done in parallel and therefore faster.

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