Word: microprocessor
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...HEAR YOU GUYS ARE WORKING ON A NEW SEARCH ENGINE. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THAT, OH, SAY, GOOGLE DOESN'T? A lot of the innovation comes with our natural-language understanding. Today if you type in a term like chips, you can get something about potato chips or microprocessor chips. You often get back pretty funny stuff. You really need the computer to read the articles and have a little bit of understanding of what's in there...
...Setting the Record Straight Digital Audio The Coolest Inventions item "Digital Jamming," about a new electric guitar [Nov. 24], mistakenly said that Gibson is the "first musical-instrument maker to release an electric guitar with a digitizing microprocessor and circuit board built right in." Gibson was not the first to produce this type of guitar. The musical-instrument company Line 6 began selling its Variax guitar with a digitizing microprocessor in December...
...been with Intel since 1974 and once served as technical assistant to the legendary Andy Grove, Barrett's predecessor. Last year, as Intel faced cutthroat competition from rival Advanced Micro Devices in a declining PC market, Otellini sat down with his engineering team, which wanted to make a new microprocessor for laptops. His big idea: since laptop owners add wi-fi cards to their machines so that they can surf the Internet wirelessly at any hot spot, why not build wireless connectivity into the chip itself? The result was the Centrino, which was launched this past March and has already...
...already got digital music files like MP3s and digital music players like the iPod, so why not create music with a digital instrument in the first place? In January, Gibson will be the first musical-instrument maker to release an electric guitar with a digitizing microprocessor and circuit board built right in. When a player strums the guitar, the analog signal from each of the six strings is converted into a digital file and then pushed out of the guitar through an Ethernet connection attached to the instrument. The resulting sound is much clearer and less susceptible to all sorts...
Moore's law holds that computers will continually get faster, but there's no corollary that says users will bother to buy them. Consumers no longer feel the need to upgrade to the latest hardware every time Intel unveils a speedier microprocessor or Microsoft releases a heftier version of Windows. According to the consumer technology-research firm Odyssey, home users nowadays are perfectly willing to go almost five years between PC purchases. Meanwhile, the computer industry, mired in its worst-ever sales slump, is desperate to dream up a compelling innovation that will put the forced back in forced obsolescence...