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News Briefs (HTML)
January 2006 (vol. 39 no. 1)
pp. 24-26

AMD Gains on Intel in Marketplace

AMD recently has gained on archrival and mricroprocessor market leader Intel in several areas.

New Technique Boosts Optical Networks' Speed

If successful, a technique that uses standard chip-making technology to build a device that switches laser beams on and off 100 billion times per second would result in making commercial optical networks 10 to 100 times faster.

Sports Technology Helps Prevent Injuries

A US firm has developed a technology that monitors collisions during athletic competitions so that coaches and trainers can take out players who have been hit hard enough to cause a concussion.

Research Program Learns from Its Own Findings

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have developed a program that finds patterns in data sets and then analyzes the patterns to discover even deeper relationships.

Index Terms:
AMD, Intel, microprocessors, chip-making technology, optical networks, sports technology, sensor technology, pattern analysis, Data mining, Subdue program
Citation:
Linda Dailey Paulson, "News Briefs," Computer, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 24-26, Jan. 2006, doi:10.1109/MC.2006.28
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