Little squirt.

A group of thermo-mechanical engineers at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, has been trying to stop chips from frying themselves, as part of an industry-wide effort to push the boundaries of high-performance computing. It is a pressing problem, because the latest Intel 64-bit pr...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 366; no. 8315; p. 30
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 3/15/2003
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