We believe it to be primarily as a by-product of an overall asteroid processing industry.

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Thanks to that piece of silicon, the new router has about 160 times the processing power of Cisco's last comparable product, its 7200 series.

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"From the consumer's point of view it's going to mean better battery life and higher image quality, " said Steve Steele, product manager of ARM's media processing division.

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