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With netbooks booming as a product category, Intel announced Monday a new Atom-based platform and new Atom processors that contain integrated graphics and the memory controller on the CPU. The new products could mean smaller, more efficient, and more powerful netbooks and entry-level desktop machines.

Intel is calling the new processors Pineview, and the platform Pine Trail. This is the first combination of a graphics processor with a x86 CPU.

On Monday, Advanced Micro Devices shipped its latest generation of processors with cloud-computing and dense-computing environments in mind. The new six-core Opteron EE processor, code-named Istanbul, promises increased performance in the same 40-watt ACP power band as previous generations.

Long-term storage and recovery of digital information is something that everyone -- from governments and businesses to home computer users -- is struggling with today. Even as more and more information goes digital, there is currently no sure-fire way to ensure that such data will be accessible in the future. According to a Science Daily report, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) scientists are working on a solution.