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New technology could reduce CPU cost
MacNN - A team of British researchers at University College London have made a breakthrough by discovering a new process to create silicon dioxide at room temperature. Currently the silicon dioxide portion of a modern computer chip must be created through

SightSpeed - an alternative to iChat
ZDNet Blogs - In early testing SightSpeed appears to be more CPU intensive than iChat, but it seems to get around Firewalls and NAT much better than iChat. One reader using SightSpeed tells me that it's better than iChat but not perfect: I did get a message about

Next PCI Express to deliver 5Gbps data rate
Electronic Engineering Times - Some graphics companies have suggested that with 10Gbps links, discrete graphics products could essentially eliminate any advantage of today's CPU chipsets with integrated graphics that are very popular in mainstream PCs. Such products are likely to