A few broken plates are a small price to pay for the joy we get using them. Besides, every chip and crack has a story to tell.

与使用这些瓷器所享受到的乐趣相比，几个摔碎的碗碟只不过是小小的代价而已，并且每个碎片都包含着一个故事。

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If the North Bridge chip is broken, CPU and system will be the main interface to exchange problems.

如果北桥芯片坏了，CPU与系统的主界面交换就会出现问题。

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Security expert, Andrew Goodwill, from the Third Man group, said this was the first evidence of a breach of the chip-and-pin system, with the encryption of the chip having been broken.

BBC: Device 'steals chip-and-pin data'

Much of the criticism was reserved for Samsung's (broken?) Blu-ray player, which due to a bad chip, bad transfers, too much compression or whatever the case may be, did not ship with movies that fulfilled the HD promise and didn't match the quality of the demos.

ENGADGET: High-def DVD sales slower than expected; HD DVD sells more units but Blu-ray makes more money

AMD, the computer-chip maker, announced on Tuesday that its processor called "Bulldozer" had broken the Guinness World Record for processing at a frequency of 8.429 gigahertz, which is about three times as fast as the processors you'd find in a speedy laptop.

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