AMD's superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers.

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Coleman, later chief operating officer at Silicon Graphics, is now chairman of Saama Technologies and is on the board of City National Bank, United Online and Accelrys.

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Both companies, however, are talking up technologies that will tap into graphics processors to speed up not just whizzy graphics but a bigger slice of everyday computing chores.

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As a result, this collaboration will help empower Unity Technologies' global community of more than 1.5 million registered developers to create better mobile gaming experiences with advanced graphics for many Snapdragon-based Android and Windows devices across the world.

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Foreign chips flooding the U.S. market provided gobs of cheap memory for PC graphics boards and laser printers--and, boy, did those two technologies ever chew up the memory!

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