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MIT guitar combines acoustics and electronics

A prototype guitar built by US student Amit Zoran combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing

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News about processors

Article | 11/02/2012 Wall Street Beat: Earnings, spending forecasts highlight tech sector strength
Recent market research reports and earnings this week from tech bellwethers including Lenovo and Cisco Systems underscore underlying strength in IT ev...
Article | 4/02/2012 AMD's move could pave the way for ARM in future chips
Advanced Micro Devices has loosened its commitment to the x86 architecture, announcing a new design strategy that could pave the way for using ARM tec...
Article | 3/02/2012 AMD puts the brakes on adding more cores to server chips
Advanced Micro Devices has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analy...
Article | 3/02/2012 AMD fundamentally shifts chip design methodology
Advanced Micro Devices will take a fundamentally different approach to designing chips as it tries to move away from playing second fiddle to Intel.
Article | 2/02/2012 ARM's first 64-bit processors target servers, smartphones
ARM will announce its first 64-bit processors later this year for servers and high-end smartphones, and is also taking steps to build up software supp...

Tutorials about processors

Article | 13/08/2010 How to get more from a quad-core PC
QUESTION: My Windows 7 Home Premium computer has a quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM. I've not found any advantage to using four cores. How can I use...
Article | 1/07/2010 Part Three: Building a PC -- installing the CPU
This article is the third in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part three, click here.
Article | 28/06/2010 How to: Overclocking for newbies
Overclocking refers to pushing your computer components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go. The initial pitch is seductive: B...
Article | 23/06/2010 Chip Showdown: A guide to the best CPUs on the market
When you're shopping for a new PC, don't meekly settle for the default processor recommended by the configurator. Picking the right CPU is a personal ...

Features about processors

Article | 12/01/2011 ARM CEO: PC market not our target
Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS wo...
Article | 8/01/2011 Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?
Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forwar...
Article | 16/08/2010 Ways to share spare CPU cycles
A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worth...
Article | 7/07/2010 Intel breaks mold, poised to fill 'compute continuum' gaps
Chip manufacturer Intel is defying conventions and moving out of its established space in personal computing systems, and spreading their territory to...
Article | 18/02/2009 MIT guitar combines acoustics and electronics
A prototype guitar built by US student Amit Zoran combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing