What this means is that there will be multiple chip suppliers in each of those market segments.
According to Intel, Apple has apparently committed to using the company's 45nm Silverthorne chip in multiple products slated for 2008.
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Where they differ relates to what will be included on the chip--multiple technologies on multiple bands that can be used on virtually 100% of today's commercial networks, or a single technology for a limited number of networks.
Other applications allow multiple social-media users to chip in and collectively buy items, and some let shoppers make payments to merchants without leaving the social-media sites.
Poor, humble and decentralized to multiple vanishing points of obscurity, the chip-based PCs nevertheless would grow to be mighty in the next 25 years.
The third-generation platform architecture consists of a multi-core SSD controller integrated with multiple high-speed serial on-chip buses and embedded processors, achieving high-speed data transfer between host and storage device.
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The quad-combo chip also provides a flexible interface with multiple secure elements to ensure all payment business models are supported for today's market.
Intel already sells chips capable of simultaneous multi-threading, and Sun's UltraSparc IV chip, launched in February, incorporates both multiple cores and multi-threading.
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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According to fresh rumors from Apple blog AppleInsider, the computer maker will soon pledge support for Intel's upcoming new mobile chip platform, code named "Menlow, " and is planning multiple products using the platform for 2008.
That operating system didn't support multiple processors, meaning most Mac users were unable to take advantage of the second chip if they spent the money for a two-chip system.
The development means that modems in future mobile devices will require just one chip, rather than two chips required in many conventional cases, in order to operate on multiple mobile standards.
The iPhone also gets a grab bag of new features, including the ability to show a user's location on Google maps (without a global positioning system chip, slick), customizable home screens, and the ability to send SMS messages to multiple people at once, among other features.
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