For the developers at Eidos Montreal, crafting a next-gen "Thief" game means using souped-up processing power to transport players under the cowl of Garrett, the series' cynical protagonist who returns for the fourth edition.
Because growing seasons are short in the harsh winters of Wisconsin, the county has helped set up processing centers where squash can be canned or carrots can be kept fresh for a day and cut up before delivery.
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Traditional RISC processors can handle digital signal processing tasks, but the additional work sucks up valuable processing power that could be used elsewhere, said David Pelavin, product marketing manager for Hitachi's SuperH product family.
She leaned on them for assistance when setting up payment processing and formatting of the pages.
"Benefits to firms will include faster file storage, computer back-up and processing for example, " he said.
Big investments have been made in upgrading computer systems to speed up the processing of intelligence and the decisions that flow from it.
The focus of the hardware is to significantly speed up data processing for large, data crunching operations like compression, image recognition, and search functions.
Intel--which keeps its own PCs about 15% longer than in the past--hopes a new wave of "multitasking" will chew up future processing power and says desktop video could help.
Intel--which keeps its own PCs about 15% longer than it did in the past--hopes that a new wave of "multitasking" will chew up future processing power and says that desktop video could help.
Technology is speeding up ordering and processing times, so dealers are not inclined to keep as many cars on hand.
They seem to deliberately put on the ear muffs, so as not hear hear the cries of the minnows they grind up in their processing mills.
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What's more, the automatic graphics switching in MSI's GPU Boost technology kicks them over to discrete graphics card mode to kick graphics processing up a notch or two.
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Later, as Olam moved up the value chain, Verghese set up his own processing plants in India, Vietnam and Brazil, ultimately taking the full cycle of cashew production back to Nigeria as well.
On Tuesday, floor traders wound up the day processing orders manually, using paper, pencil and in some cases white board to keep track of buy and sell orders, instead of using the electronic trading system that is supposed to be the show-piece of the hybrid model.
For it would open up the possibility of processing thorium heavy ores of those metals.
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Another glitch cropped up with a payment processing error that an Amex supervisor acknowledged wasn't my fault.
As of February, visa processing was up 57 percent in 2012 from the same timeframe in 2011.
Grid computing attempts to connect up the islands of processing power and data in the world's universities and to standardise ways of interrogating data and calling on huge amounts of computer power.
Additionally, the TV's picture engine employs multi-frame analysis to help create missing resolution, and Sony's Super Bit Mapping technology incorporates 14 bit up-scaling, processing and pixel mapping to smooth gradation and improve the quality of low-tone pictures.
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"The new IBM zEnterprise System represents a potentially revolutionary change to the platform and the next phase in the evolution of highly efficient, scalable processing opening up the possibility of hosting entire workloads on a single highly integrated system, " said Martin Kennedy, Managing Director, Citi's Enterprise System Infrastructure.
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All of the brain regions involved in processing language fired up as if the brain were healthy and normal.
The next generation of Quattron technology also includes specialized signal processing for scaling up from 1080p to 4K images.
The most basic benefit it offers is the ability to improve parallel processing without sucking up a lot of electricity.
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They saw the growing importance of digital imaging, but in their linear analysis of the digital threat, they concluded it was decades away from becoming mainstream so they doubled down on vertical integration into film processing while setting up a small ancillary digital imaging group to develop and sell digital cameras.
Indian firms, once purely providers of cheap call-center services and payroll processing, are moving up the value ladder.
In the future, the village will try food processing and maybe set up sales outlets in Beijing and Tianjin.
This time around IBM built an entirely different kind of machine, a marvel of natural language processing that can apply up to 1, 000 algorithms to the info-equivalent of millions of books.
There's a (presumably Korea-only) TV tuner built-in, which can be activated without powering up the whole PC, while processing powering is provided by a third-generation Core i5 processor and NVIDIA's GeForce GT640M.
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This time around IBM built an entirely different kind of machine, a marvel of natural language processing that can apply up to 1, 000 algorithms to the info equivalent of millions of books.
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