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The article discusses the papers presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in February 2009 at the San Francisco Marriott hotel in California. One of the papers considers the introduction of Intel Corp.'s Nehalem-EX server CPU, a 2.3 billion-transistor member of its 45-nm Nehalem family. Meanwhile, another paper shows the technique described by Hideaki Saito, a principal researcher at NEC Corp., for stacking a memory chip using direct aluminum-to-copper links.

Focuses on Rise Technology, a central processing unit (CPU) manufacturer located in Santa Clara, California. Efforts of Rise Technology to build low cost CPUs and sell them at low prices; Competition with Intel Corp.; Details of Rise Technology's MP6 computer chip; The competitive aspects of the chip.

Reports that computer chip makers are catching up with Intel Corp., the semi-conductor giant from Santa Clara in California. Information on how Intel has dominated the computer hardware market for a decade; Announcement of a California-based chip maker regarding designing of a processor that is compatible with Intel's Pentium chip; Analysis of financial status and revenue spending by Intel.

The article reports on the new product offering of Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), which consists of three desktop models for its HP Compaq Business PC product line. The two models offers the Core 2 Duo chip of Intel Corp., while the other one is supported by the new Athlon 64 X2 processors of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. HP has increased its focus on security and manageability and two major concerns for senior-level information technology managers. The HP Openview Configuration Management Agent is preinstalled to track and update software.

Reports on the completion of initial production runs of dual-core processors by Santa Clara, California-based Intel Corp., as of February 2005. Plans of Intel for the release of dual-core products and dual-core-enabled chipsets for its Pentium processor-class families; Design of the dual-core and multi-core products; Number of multi-core related projects being undertaken by Intel.

This article reports on the plan of Intel Corp. to develop dual core versions of its Pentium 4 desktop and Xeon server chips in San Francisco, California. The company claims it is not yet ready to reveal details about the next Xeon processor but they promised that a dual-core Xeon will be the next major follow-on to the Nocona chip.

Reports on the revenues of the Santa Clara, California-based microprocessor firm Intel Corp. in the third quarter of 2001. What resulted in the increases in microprocessor orders over the second quarter; Intel's gross margin; Net loss from equity investments Intel is expecting.

Reports that Santa Clara, California-based Intel Corp. is planning to release computer hardware and software products, designed to make it easier for server and workstation makers to add the RAID computer network to their systems. Projected advantages to be offered by the computer products to be unveiled by Intel to its users; Details regarding Intel's intention to install RAID into all servers.