At the same time they want to diversify from commodity chips into advanced chips such as processors and chips for mobile telephones.
As custom chips embrace programmable logic, and programmable logic takes in major blocks of components such as processors, a further intriguing possibility is emerging.
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Faster rotation translates into less time loading programs, but it will offer the biggest boost to applications such as word processors and spreadsheets that frequently access multiple files on the hard drive, says IBM's Walling.
Games may be a problem, as high-end gaming is most likely to exploit ARM architecture hardware extensions, and as such not perform as expected on x86 processors.
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Game developers are pushing the very concept of portable gaming on tablets and smartphones at a breakneck rate thanks to quad-core processors such as NVIDIA's Tegra 3.
Currently, chipsets based on Arm's designs, such as Nvidia's popular Tegra processors, are unable to run Windows.
It does much of the software scut work needed to make its processors useful, such as building compilers, debuggers, and drivers.
True supercomputers are irreplaceable for some scientific problems, such as weather forecasting, where many processors must communicate frequently with one another.
Chrome OS is designed primarily to work with applications such as e-mail, word-processors, calendars and the like that are stored in the cloud rather than on a user's hard-drive.
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Moreover, about 80% of the fish processed is imported from countries such as Russia, which implies that the processors would just have to slim down a bit rather than close if the Scottish fleet is forced to tie up.
The hope is that pairing up researchers and businesses will hasten the development of material and component manufacturing processes for the carbon-based substance, and make it possible for graphene to find its way into products such as flexible electronics, batteries and faster processors.
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Sales of mobile processors that power popular devices such as Apple's iPhones and Samsung's own Galaxy smartphones boosted the bottom line.
This software is compatible with all application processors and can be optimized for power consumption and increased performance via custom hardware blocks, such as the DOC advanced hardware image processing (AHIP) embedded in Fujitsu's discrete image signal processors (ISPs).
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That will provide key advantages over rivals building quad-core mobile processors using older 40 nanometer technology, such as Nvidia.
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IA-64 processors will be found only in machines such as workstations and servers.
Few consumers regret that Windows has absorbed what once were stand-alone applications such as fax programs, or that Intel now makes faster processors.
The other raw material for photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, will be supplied as the exhaust from industrial plants such as power stations, oil refineries and natural-gas processors.
Low costs are a big reason why Intel and AMD have survived, while companies known for data-center processors built around so-called RISC designs such as DEC and Sun have been swallowed up by larger companies.
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Intel, AMD charges, threatened to withhold vital price breaks on its processors to deny Intel rival business from big computer makers such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
"Quad-core processors offer much faster performance for graphics-intensive activities such as high-definition video playback and high-end gaming as well as enabling the phone to handle multitasking with less effect on the user experience, " said Daniel Gleeson, a research analyst for IHS Screen Digest.
Such discoveries have spread like wildfire across Europe as governments, supermarkets, meat traders and processors began their own DNA testing of products labeled beef and have been forced to withdraw tens of millions of products from store shelves.
Intel sells its processors to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Toshiba and Sony, and individuals building custom PCs.
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