Word: processors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Intel is not the only micro-processor game in town. Competitors Cyrix and Advacnced Micro Devices (AMD) both have plans to unveil new, more powerful chips that they hope can compete with Intel...
...computer. Tis the season for financial aid forms, and in the flurry, many students may decide to take out a computer loan. Then the question is: what computer do I get? For PC users, Intel hopes you will buy into their latest improvement of the Pentium processor...
...technology is able to drastically boost performance primarily because MMX has 57 new instruction sets. (CS 50 flashbacks anyone?) This allows the processor to handle more graphic-intensive tasks simultaneaously. In addition, even newer chips have more cache than current Pentiums, enabling the computer to anticipate where programs should be loaded milliseconds in advance...
...coming months, users can expect to see a Pentium Pro machine with MMX that will run at a speedy 266Mhz. Dubbed Pentium II, Intel's hopes this will become the new desktop PC standard. By the end of the year, Intel expects to release a 300Mhz MMX processor code-named Deschutes...
BOULDER, Colorado: The uncertain and mistake-prone investigation of JonBenet Ramsey's murder found a focus today, if only a sidelight, with the arrest of two people for illegally providing photographs of the homicide scene to a tabloid. Lawrence Smith, a processor for Photo Craft Laboratories, which develops photos for the Boulder County coroner's office, and Brent Sawyer, a private investigator and former Boulder County deputy sheriff, allegedly handed the photos over to the Globe for a $5,500 pay-off. Smith, 36, who made only $200 for the act that could get him 8 1/2 years in jail...