Everyone is playing catch-up to American Express, the 800-pound gorilla of high-end cards, with its invitation only Centurion (aka, Black) card legendary among Hollywood types.

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Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductors for the digital multimedia market, from portable devices such as smart phones to high-end graphics cards and large, high-definition displays.

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On paper, 80-cores sounds impressive, but when the software isn't doing anything imaginative with them it's actually rather disappointing: during a demonstration, Intel could only manage to get 1 Teraflop out of the chip, a figure which many medium- to high-end graphics cards are easily capable of.

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While discrete graphics cards high performance appeals to gamers and professionals who require high-end computing, integrated graphics is aimed to support minimal graphics requirements of a PC.

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AMD's Radeon HD 7770 and 7870 reference cards already sport 1GHz clock speeds, but so far the high-end flagship 7970 has been stuck at 925MHz.

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The expensive, 64-megabyte memory cards found in top-end MP3 players hold only a dozen or so songs in high-sound-quality mode.

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