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Comment Re:Why can't you skip a generation? (Score 1) 168

by XMod (#25070281) Attached to: IBM Leapfrogs Intel With 22nm Chips
"Intel has three design teams, in three countries. They compete for the next Intel release."

I don't think this is right. I can't find any source, but what I found was this:

"the Bangalore design center is the first Intel team outside the U.S. to complete the design of a 45-nanometer processor [Nehalem], he said."

http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=21025&monthview=1&month=8&year=2006

So, the Israel tem didn't actualy compete, but collaborated.
Media

Submission + - BBC and YouTube in Deal Talks

Submitted by Algis
Algis writes: The BBC and YouTube are in the process of striking a deal between themselves, allowing BBC content to be available on Google-owned YouTube, the world's largest and most popular video sharing service. The Beeb has previously demanded takedowns of a large number of its videos that were posted to the site by YouTube users, resulting in the message, "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by The BBC". Quite what the BBC-YouTube deal will entail is anyone's guess. It is highly, highly unlikely to include full-length current BBC shows. What could be possible is the addition to YouTube of much older shows, such as classics like 'The Young Ones' or 'Faulty Towers', in an effort to boost the shows' exposure and increase DVD sales of these shows.
Microsoft

Journal Journal: Gates announce AIDS vaccine initiative

Journal by taketheleap
From the article:

Canada will be the site of a new facility to manufacture and test vaccines to fight HIV/AIDS, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates announced Tuesday in Ottawa. Ottawa will contribute up to $111 million toward the new Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative, while the Microsoft founder, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will donate up to $28 million.
Movies

Submission + - Don't believe what you see at the movies

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MattSparkes
MattSparkes writes: "Most images you see in a magazine are Photoshopped, and it's getting less and less likely that what you see at the cinema is any more genuine. In one scene in Blood Diamond, tears have been added to the face of Jennifer Connolly after it was shot. According to The Times, digital effects artists can even change actors' expressions. "Opening or closing eyes; making a limp more convincing; removing breathing signs; eradicating blinking eyelids from a lingering gaze; or splicing together different takes of an unsuccessful love scene to produce one in which both parties look like they are enjoying themselves." One day it may even be possible to make it look like Keanu Reaves can act."
AMD

AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested 156

Posted by Zonk from the kicking-the-tires-lighting-the-fires dept.
Spinnerbait writes "AMD officially launched their next speed bump in the Athlon 64 product line, in the form of a new 3GHz part branded the Athlon 64 6000+. This new dual-core Athlon 64 sports 1MB of on-chip cache per core and is designed for AMD's Socket AM2 platform. This chip is still built on AMD's 90nm fab node and is comprised of some 227 million transistors. It also carries a thermal power profile of about 125Watts. Unfortunately, in all the benchmarks seen here, it was still unable to catch Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 chip at 2.66GHz."

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