Over the next two years, the Atom lineage will catch up with its larger brethren, first with the launch of a 32nm Atom, code named Cedar Trail, which will sample this year and ship in volume in 2012, and then with a 22nm part, which will ship in volume in 2013.

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Just as many sciences seek to understand large populations by analyzing a smaller representative sample of a population, the Bolshoi simulation focused on modeling a hypothetical representative volume of the universe.

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By feeding hundreds of sample sounds into the system, the software can distinguish different threats from various sounds - and not just based on volume.

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