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When China launched its first microprocessor, the Godson 1 in 2002, it wasn't much of a competitor to what Intel and AMD had to offer. The 64bit Godson 2, released in 2005, still didn't worry the Western chip makers, but the chip did start to pop up here and there outside of China. Expect to see a lot more of them in the coming years, as the Godson 3 promises to be a chip that can compete head on with the big ones: quad-core, eight core version in the pipeline, and 200 extra instructions aiding in x86 compatibility.

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The mini laptop market has expanded yet again with the launch of a 7in machine costing under £200.

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Holodeck 1.0? Star Trek-style 3-D displays make their debut
True 3-D display technology developed by European researchers offers enormous potential for design, education and collaboration.
Star Trek's holodeck is a famous science fiction concept. Crewmembers could walk through the garden of their childhood home, re-enact famous historical events or watch full, 3-D performances of famous plays. It was a rich source of story lines for the Star Trek writers because the holodeck offered so many opportunities to work, rest and play.
The holodeck is still science fiction, but last year researchers took the first, confident steps towards its realisation with the Coherent project. This EU-funded research project, developed a commercial, true 3-D display that could one day be called Holodeck version 1.0. It is called HoloVizio.

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Together with Kevin Greenan and associate professor Ethan Miller and Kaladhar Voruganti, a along with researcher at NetApp, he developed the idea of Pergamum, a new disk-based approach for archiving data.
Pergamum, named after the ancient Greek library that made the transition from fragile papyrus to more durable parchment, is designed as a distributed network of individually fully functional network storage devices.
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Learn how a standard PC powers up to ten stations
PCs spend most of the day idle. Userful's software leverages this unused computing power and enables up to 10 users to all work directly off a single PC.
Desktop Multiplier is a software add-on that allows your Linux operating system to support up to 10 independent users, monitors and keyboards with just one PC.
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An Indian system makes it into the top ten of the top 500 list of supercomputers which remains dominated by IBM.

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Phoenix has unveiled a new firmware product called HyperSpace. This technology is an instant-on environment designed for notebooks. Notebooks equipped with HyperSpace will be able to quick-boot into this Linux-based environment just seconds after you powered on your notebook. HyperSpace will feature the Firefox browser, Google Earth, Picasa and several other instant messaging, e-mail and web-based applications. You won't be loading the HyperSpace environment as an end user; it will be up to the system manufacturer to equip your system with HyperSpace at the factory, or up to your IT folk to order HyperSpace on your company's laptops.

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Hitachi has unveiled a new read-head technology for hard disk drives, which it says will increase storage capacity fourfold. That means drives of up to to 4TB in desktop computers and 1TB in notebooks.
The increase has been made possible by the development of current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive (CPP-GMR) heads of between 30 and 50 nanometers; current TMR drive heads are around 70nm.

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Fab@Home is a website dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop. This website provides an open source kit that lets you make your own simple fabber, and use it to print three dimensional objects. You can download and print various items, try out new materials, or upload and share your own projects. Advanced users can modify and improve the fabber itself.
Fabbers (a.k.a 3D Printers or rapid prototyping machines) are a relatively new form of manufacturing that builds 3D objects by carefuly depositing materials drop by drop, layer by layer.

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