It is comprised of smaller revenue generating product lines such as digital light processing (DLP) projectors and reduced-instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessors.

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The Brahma15 is a 21, 000 DMIP Quad-core ARMv7-A instruction set compatible multiprocessor. 32KB instruction and 32KB data caches per processor are backed by a shared 2MB L2 cache and feed the multi-issue, out-of-order superscalar 15-stage plus write back pipeline of the Brahma15.

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Startup Calxeda is already building server processors based on the ARM instruction set it shares with Qualcomm, and ARM has announced a 64-bit version of the processor instruction set it licenses to Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Texas Instruments something that will almost surely be translated into processors for servers.

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This time, however, Intel wants to crack the graphics market by doing the one thing it does best: cranking out chips able to run the so-called x86 instruction set that powers the overwhelming majority of modern computers.

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Apple would need to build a 64-bit processor compatible with the ARM instruction set, a project that could take years.

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Why on the list: arm is the main designer of RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chips used in such battery-powered information appliances as handlheld PCs and mobile phones.

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Though the classes are led by Duke professors, he said, "they're not taught the way we teach Duke courses" because they don't have a set meeting time, nor do they involve face-to-face instruction.

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