Thanks to advances in chip design and computational throughput, a typical SoC today contains multiple cores to deliver extremely high levels of packet processing, security functions, signal processing, programmability and more.

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Psychologists call this the "levels-of-processing" effect, since sentences that require extra levels of analysis are more likely to get remembered.

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But, through research in Southampton laboratories, the firm is also attempting to refine processing techniques such that levels of nicotine and, in particular, tar in cigarette smoke are reduced.

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Flanagan criticizes Owen on many levels, starting with her choice of word-processing medium.

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