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Photos: Intel's vision for the future

By Rupert Goodwins on 03 April 2008

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If the world's largest chip manufacturer wanted to impress the world, what would it do? Our inside photo gallery from the Intel developer conference in Shanghai reveals the world's smallest motherboard, fondling robots, fuel cells, medical technology and Intel finally unleashing the power of the Atom.

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The world's smallest PC motherboard. This unpopulated PCB will build a PC with wireless and high-performance graphics, based on the forthcoming Moorestown platform. This system-on-a-chip is the successor to the Centrino Atom (Menlow) platform, and is rumoured to be destined for a future iPhone.

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Megarath1
08/04/2008 08:39 AM

it was only a matter of time before they incorporated atom based technology into PC's. Soon these new processors will be faster then anything we can imagine (in mayb 6 - 12 months there will be a great increase in power)

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