SonicBlue has signed a deal with Intel to use Intel's X-scale processors in its products.

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"They bought a subdivision of Intel called X-Scale, which makes the processor that goes into high-end cellphones like smart phones, " Shah says.

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Small-scale entertainment applications like these, says Lifton, may be more realistic in the near term than Paradiso's dreams of large-scale X-Reality.

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The NMC1000 is available in 40-pin, 5mm X 5mm quad flat no-lead (QFN) and 2.5mm x 2.5mm chip scale packages, requiring the industry's smallest external BOM.

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Was UFO: Enemy Unknown (or , if you prefer, X-COM: UFO Defense) the best PC game ever (spoiler: yes), and could a remake scale those heights?

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