Thanks to that piece of silicon, the new router has about 160 times the processing power of Cisco's last comparable product, its 7200 series.

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The two other possibilities, which were ruled out, were on-island heat treatment - in an incinerator, gasification or pyrolysis plant - or a further stage of processing to produce a fuel product, which would also be shipped off-island.

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We believe it to be primarily as a by-product of an overall asteroid processing industry.

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"From the consumer's point of view it's going to mean better battery life and higher image quality, " said Steve Steele, product manager of ARM's media processing division.

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It is comprised of smaller revenue generating product lines such as digital light processing (DLP) projectors and reduced-instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessors.

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He yanked 5, 000 Transmedia processing machines out of restaurants and combined Dining's classier front-end product with Transmedia's superior back-office system that credited savings on monthly charge-card accounts.

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That means measuring and reducing the embodied energy of a product throughout the supply chain, from materials extraction to processing to transportation to product use and disposal.

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It allows certain specified goods to be imported for processing or incorporation into finished products at the rate of Customs duty that would be applicable to the finished product, that is, zero, instead of the rate for the imported goods.

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