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Developers, analysts and the media have descended upon sunny San Jose, Calif. , this week for Intel's biannual review of its products and partnerships. And Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is here as well, demonstrating some of its long-awaited 64-bit products and outlining its mobile strategy at briefings down the street from the San Jose Convention Center , site of the Intel Developer Forum.

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Intel's "Prescott" processor could scale up to 5-GHz, Intel executives said this afternoon.

In a small presentation providing an overview of the new processor here, Intel executives unveiled the 15 new instructions found within the processor, which a senior Intel executive had declined to comment upon earlier on Wednesday.

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Phoenix Technologies Inc., a leading BIOS manufacturer for more than two decades, is branching out with a plan to create a secure applications layer between the BIOS and the operating system in PCs, servers and mobile devices.

Dubbed the Phoenix Core Managed Environment, or cME, the technology is designed to be built into a protected area of the computer's hard drive, according to officials with the San Jose, Calif., company."

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Rambus formally launched its chip-to-chip interconnect, codenamed "Redwood", and has positioned it as the physical interface over which next-generation buses will be run.

Rambus provided an overview of the technology last month, when the company disclosed that Sony would be using the technology in next-generation entertainment products, without specifically naming the PlayStation.

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VR-Zone managed to caught up with Matt Dunford, Intel Client Performance Manager and share with us some of his views on the much debated 3DMark2003.

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The nine companies promoting Blu-ray Disc technology--a next-generation recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers--announced Thursday that licensing will begin Feb. 17. Blu-ray Disc technology allows for 27GB storage capacities on a single-sided 12cm disc. DVDs hold 4.7GB of data. Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Pioneer, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony and Thomson are known as the "Blu-ray Disc Founders" and have been pursuing a broad acceptance of the format.

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