Microprocessor technology licensing company ARM Holdings this morning posted Q1 results that topped Street estimates, while projecting full-year results in line with current investor expectations.

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The problem is that many foreign countries have adopted credit card microprocessor chip technology, which has only just started to be rolled out in the United States.

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By the same token, no killer technology no microprocessor has yet emerged, although the consensus is that it is waiting in the wings.

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A. Semi and turned its technology into the Ax microprocessor range.

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As Lehman Brothers ' bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch 's acquisition by Bank of America sent investors scurrying for safety Monday, technology vendors ranging from microprocessor company Advanced Micro Devices to server vendor Sun Microsystems began to feel pain.

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Apply the relevant laws and you'll have a pretty accurate idea where microprocessor performance, PC usage, display technology, fiber optic bandwidth, wireless PDAs, games, the Web, etc. will be two, three and five years from now.

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Among the start-ups that have hit it big: Arm, an international microprocessor manufacturer, and CSR, developer of Blutetooth wireless technology.

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Along with a microprocessor that serves as a PC's core calculating engine, Spider includes graphics technology for serving up the advanced graphics beloved by gamers and a chipset that ties those elements together and connects them to other resources such as the main memory.

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