South Africa won the first Test by an innings and 25 runs before India squared the series with an 87-run win in Durban.

BBC: Gautam Gambhir helps India salvage draw in South Africa

The multi-core war may have begun, but the battle will be fought with software, although that's not to say that the hardware side has already been won: apparently the test chip is much larger than equivalent chips -- 275 mm squared, versus a typical Core 2 Duo's 143 mm squared -- and Intel currently has no way to hook up memory to the chip.

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But he bowled too short and too wide in the second Test at Trent Bridge with England looking for the win and was pummelled by Tendulkar and Co as India squared the series at Headingley.

BBC: Hoggard the unbreakable