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China Overtakes US In Number Of Broadband Lines - InformationWeek

September 27, 2008 – 12:26 am

Wall Street Journal
China Overtakes US In Number Of Broadband Lines
InformationWeek - 2 hours ago
Broadband for the two countries grew in parallel for 18 months until the first quarter of this year, when China took a leap forward, according to analysts with Point Topic.
China to Conduct First Spacewalk Space.com
Astronauts ready for spacewalk today China Daily
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Another leap forward for China - China Daily

September 26, 2008 – 1:30 am

Voice of America
Another leap forward for China
China Daily - 1 hour ago
By Hu Yinan (China Daily) JIUQUAN, Gansu — The first evening launch of a Shenzhou manned space mission is one people will remember for generations.
China Launches Crew of Three For First Spacewalk Wired News
China launches three astronauts into space United Press International
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IBM shoots for 22nm processor, bragging rights

September 23, 2008 – 1:03 am

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IBM and others have already boasted about their plans to develop sub-32nm processors, but it now looks like Big Blue is aiming to blow past its competitors in a pretty big way by taking things all the way down to the 22-nanometer level. That rather significant leap is apparently possible thanks to a new technique that IBM developed with Mentor Graphics and Toppan Printing dubbed Computational Scaling, which employs some new mathematical techniques and other head-scratching measures to overcome the current limitations associated with etching circuits onto processors of this scale. While it of course sees the 22nm processors being used in even smaller laptops and an array of other devices, IBM seems to be especially interested in using the chips in its cloud computing initiatives, where it seems to think the chips’ greater efficiency could make a particularly big impact. As you might have guessed, however, it’s not yet clear exactly when that might happen.

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