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Why speed isn't everything.

The article focuses on the history, speed, and design of computer chips. The first computer chips were designed to execute a series of straightforward operations. The chip could also store results and retrieve them again from a separate memory, which also held the program it was running. Then, as no...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 370; no. 8366; pp. 39 - 41
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 3/13/2004
Subjects:
Integrated circuits
Speed
Parallel processing
High performance processors
Computer industry
Transistors
Research & development
Supercomputers
History
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