The ship is designed to conduct only one primary mission at a time, but its small size, high speed and stealthy design make it well suited to function in treacherous coastal areas where bigger warships seldom venture.

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But Iovine and HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou contend their companies share important qualities, such as a commitment to speed, innovation, design and high quality.

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The artistic design combines with the high-speed USB 3.0 interface and cross-platform compatibility to result in a hard drive that is as practical as it is stunning.

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The canceled Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle would have achieved high speed in the water by using a planing design that enabled the vehicle to ride on top of the sea.

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"Toggle DDR provides a faster interface than conventional NAND using an asynchronous design, delivering the benefits of high-speed data transfer to a wider market, such as for solid state drive (SSD) applications including enterprise storage, mobile phones, multimedia terminals and consumer products, " said Masaki Momodomi, Technical Executive, Memory product, Toshiba Corporation.

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Singh says that this could help speed up the design process by making it possible to have a high-precision part built in weeks rather than months.

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