Intel also said it will hustle its Atom processors onto its most advanced process technology, putting it on track to build Atom processors with features just 14 nanometers wide in 2014.

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Even if Apple turns to another manufacturer to build its chips, it will almost surely move past the 45 nanometer process technology to build the processors now found in the iPad and iPhone.

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In the past Intel has first put its newest process technology to work in pricey server processors and chips for high-end gaming machines.

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Looking into the second quarter, Samsung expects to improve profitability in the chip business with a recovery in PC DRAM price and by expanding its new product category with mobile application processors based on 32 nanometer-class process technology.

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The process will involve building a Blue Gene supercomputer with 8, 000 processors that can roar along at 23 trillion operations per second.

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Just look at what Intel has done to Advanced Micro Devices over the past 12 months: Thanks to a salvo of new processor designs--and a cutting-edge manufacturing process--Intel has grabbed 76.3% of the market for the "x86" processors that power most of the world's computers in the final quarter of last year, up from 74.4% during the year-ago period, according to Mercury Research.

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Just look at what Intel has done to Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) over the past 12 months: Thanks to a salvo of new processor designs--and a cutting-edge manufacturing process--Intel has grabbed 76.3% of the market for the "x86" processors that power most of the world's computers in the final quarter of last year, up from 74.4% during the year-ago period, according to Mercury Research.

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Intel announced 27 new processors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Thursday, shifting its new 32-nanometer manufacturing process into the mainstream.

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