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Submission + - IBM claims breakthrough in chip manufacturing

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Monday December 10, 2007 @06:57PM

Stony Stevenson writes: IBM and its partners, which include tech heavyweights Advanced Micro Devices, Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, and others, have developed a key material that reduces the cost of manufacturing next-generation 32-nanometer microprocessors. The proprietary material based on the chemical element hafnium makes it possible for chipmakers to design products that follow the same manufacturing process flow used in building conventional chips. Keeping the manufacturing steps the same means fewer expensive modifications in fabrication plants.

Submission + - ISP Content Filtering Really a Threat? 3

Submitted by on Monday December 10, 2007 @06:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: With recent growth in research in the areas of network overlays, the growth (although small at this point) of technologies like Tor, and other fields that could disrupt content filtering, combined with the increasing connection speed of the average user, is it really a threat? Fiber to the home and other such types of high bandwidth connections should compensate for the overhead incurred by an encrypted network overlay which would allow me to run all the BT I want ... even over Comcast's network. Granted there is nothing concrete in this area quite yet, but then again ISP's don't have concrete filtering systems quite yet either.

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