There were also complex engineering tasks at a very high level.

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Our engineering team is fairly small, and there are a lot of high-priority tasks that need to get finished.

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While primarily a novelty among the tech-obsessed, 3-D printing been used successfully for a variety of tasks, from making jewelry or medical supplies to larger projects in industrial design and engineering.

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AMD's processors have always done well in integer performance, which is important for common business tasks, but have lagged in floating-point performance, which counts most in elaborate financial models, engineering, and games.

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