But as the software technology matures, it will increasingly be able to lash together thousands of low-cost computing nodes and create a flexible, high-performance corporate data center.

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The idea of low-cost family computing is not new in China.

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The new era emerges from the build-out of the wireless information highway and low-cost high-performance computing engines.

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It will all be possible because of sophisticated networks, powerful computing, low cost bandwidth terrestrial integration, and seamless switching.

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Dell was late to adopt the souped-up low-cost chips of Advanced Micro Devices , missed out on mobile computing and failed to put up any new products or applications with pizzazz.

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