Chicory already is pitching designs for accelerating the processing of video and audio streams, as well as accelerators for converting code written for cell phone chips designed by ARM, the British shop, into code that can be read by Pentiums and other chips.

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Menlow chips, including one code-named "Silverthorne, " are being designed especially for "mobile Internet devices" and "ultra-mobile PCs, " according to Intel.

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To date, 27 German blue chips have fulfilled most of the code's obligations.

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The chips use a technology called "code morphing, " which Transmeta says lets them run the same x86-type instructions as Intel processors, but with less power.

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Intel, which supplies microprocessors that serve as calculating engines in most PCs, is emphasizing a new line of battery-conserving chips that is known by the code name Haswell.

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In particular, he says, IDF will feature the launch of a new line of chips targeted specifically at ultrabook designs, code-named Haswell.

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Derrick claims the HotShot can translate Java code up to 35 times as fast as conventional chips and cut battery consumption by 95%.

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