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Intel is pushing its Xeon Processor 5600 series as the most secure data-center processor on the market. The company launched the server and workstation chips on its 32nm logic technology, which relies on second-generation high-k metal gate transistors to boost speed and lower energy consumption.

Booting up PCs will be faster with Intel's new 40GB solid-state drive (SSD), the company said Monday. Intel has begun shipping the Intel X25-V Value SATA SSD.

Used in dual-drive notebook configurations or added to a desktop with an existing hard drive, the X25-V can contain the operating system and the user's favorite applications to make startup faster.

Considered a game-changing technology to replace hard drives, SSDs have been replacing traditional magnetic hard drives after they proved to be faster, more reliable, and more energy efficient.

by Sara Firisen

Intel this week offered a preview of platforms using its Core i7 Extreme Edition processor. Although the company is aiming the processor heavily at the gaming market, analysts said there are also clear business applications for the processor.

Code-named Gulftown, the i7-980X Extreme Edition processor is the industry's first 32nm, six-core processor with 12 computing threads. Intel introduced the i7 family last September with its exclusive Turbo Boost technology and Hyper-Threading Technology.

Now that Windows 7 is widely viewed as a worthwhile upgrade, many are looking at buying a new computer that will take advantage of Microsoft's new operating system. What you look for in a new machine, though, should depend in part on what your primary tasks will be. Read on for some answers.

Q: I'm interested in buying a new desktop to run Windows 7. I'll be using it to edit photographs, video, and for doing general chores. What components should I focus on?

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First Google, and now Intel. The chipmaker has revealed that its servers were hacked in January, around the same time search giant Google and 24 other companies reported a highly sophisticated security breach. And Intel says such attempts happen regularly.

With its sterling reputation and its scientific bent, Shanghai Jiaotong University has the feel of an Ivy League institution.

The university has alliances with elite American ones like Duke and the University of Michigan. And it is so rich in science and engineering talent that Microsoft and Intel have moved into a research park adjacent to the school.

But Jiaotong, whose campus here has more than 33,000 students, is facing an unpleasant question: Is it a base for sophisticated computer hackers?

The semiconductor industry has long been a game for titans.

The going rate for a chip factory is about $3 billion. The facilities typically take years to build. And the microscopic size of chip circuitry requires engineering that nearly defies the laws of physics.

Over the decades, legions of companies have found themselves reeling, even wiped out financially, after trying to produce some of the most complex objects made by man for the lowest possible prices.