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To: Gottfried who wrote (180803)	4/17/2005 9:40:09 PM
From: robert b furman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I don't think so. They are renewable and any service would have a redundancy plan and a backup stratellite. They have nuclear power capabilities as well. Bob

To: Gottfried who wrote (180803)	4/18/2005 8:33:13 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 186894

Intel dual-core chips set to ship Published: April 15, 2005, 10:27 AM PDT By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com A few PC makers will start selling PCs containing dual-core chips from Intel on Monday, three days ahead of the debut of the dual cores. Dell, Alienware and a few others are preparing to take orders on Monday for PCs containing these chips, an Intel spokesman said. The companies will also be able to ship these PCs to customers. Although volumes of the Extreme Edition Pentium 4, code-named Smithfield, will initially be low, Intel will ship millions of dual-core chips by the end of the year, the spokesman said. By the end of 2006, Intel expects that 70 percent of its server chips and 85 percent of its desktop and notebook chips will be dual core, the company has said. Intel's pre-emptive strike will likely give it the right to claim being the first to ship dual-core x86 chips. Advanced Micro Devices is slated to release dual-core Opteron chips for servers and workstations on April 21. Hewlett-Packard, however, is currently taking preorders on dual-core Opteron servers. Intel's dual-core chips will run at 3.2GHz, slower than existing Pentium 4s, and will have an 800MHz system bus. Each core will also have 1MB of cache, less than the 2MB of cache found on a single-core chip's computing core. Still, the overall performance will be better than existing chips, Intel says, and will allow PC users to fluidly run two applications at once. The chip will also contain HyperThreading, which allows the processing cores to take on more simultaneous tasks. A scaled-down version of Smithfield without HyperThreading will arrive later in the quarter. AMD, though, still has a few days to spoil the party. In 2000, Intel secretly moved up the release date of its first 1GHz chip from around June to March 8. After the news broke, AMD moved the date of its first 1GHz chip up a few months to March 6. Intel's dual-core release will come the day before the 40th anniversary of Moore's Law, the famed observation that the number of transistors on a chip can double every two years.

To: Gottfried who wrote (180803)	4/23/2005 6:47:55 AM
From: Sam Citron	Respond to of 186894

Magazine Buff Scores Big for Having Intel Inside [LA Times] By Jon Healey April 23, 2005 When the Philips Electronics technical library near London discarded old copies of Electronics magazine in the mid-1970s, engineer David Clark snapped them up for his own collection because he found them "incredibly interesting." One of those copies also turned out to be incredibly valuable. Chip giant Intel Corp. is paying Clark $10,000 for the April 19, 1965, issue of Electronics — which originally sold for less than a buck — because it contains the first pronouncement by company co-founder Gordon Moore that semiconductors would double in computing power every couple of years while dropping in price. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the axiom, now known as Moore's Law, Intel had offered the bounty for a pristine copy that could be framed in its museum. The reward was so rich that librarians at several universities put their copies under lock and key to prevent theft. Clark, 57, who lives southwest of London and still works as a consulting engineer for Philips, said he had rescued the magazines — which were stashed under his floorboards — in part because "they formed a great historical record of that period, which even then I thought was something people would look back on as the start of the electronics industry." He added, "I had a sense of history, which other people thought was kind of odd." Intel spokesman Manny Vara said the company would not trust the coveted magazine to mail carriers or a delivery service. Instead, it plans to have its employees in Swindon, England, collect the issue from Clark and deliver it by hand to Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Clark, a self-described "hoarder" of electronics and other gear, said his wife, Freda, has been, "shall we say, encouraging me" to winnow his holdings. The reward is bittersweet for her, Clark said, because "she thought I'd be more immune to throwing things out." But the money will certainly be useful, Clark said, noting that his daughter Bryony plans to get married in August. For him, the main regret has been the weak dollar: $10,000 translates into less than 5,300 pounds. "Wow, I was disappointed by that, I must say," Clark said. "I tried to push [Intel] up to 6,000 pounds, but it didn't work." latimes.com