"But if Vietnam had started to produce high-quality pepper many centuries ago, instead of having begun only relatively recently," said Thomas Phillip, the managing director of Cochin Spices, a local processor, "it is quite likely that the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British and others would have gravitated there, not here.
Before the program stops making use of the processor, it registers its change of activity with Windows Push Notification Services (WNS) - software that runs on Microsoft's remote computer servers.
First, Apple revealed the A6, the first processor it designed on its own in-house, which obviously represents significant expenditure of time and resources.
Last year it sold off its remaining shares in Targa, an American gas processor it founded in 2003, reaping $1.8 billion from a $400m investment.
With its Motorola 68000 CPU and dedicated video display processor, it could handle big animating characters (or sprites) and detailed scrolling backgrounds with ease.
Even so, the announcement on Opteron and Xeon licensing was a big turnaround for the firm: it has charged customers on a per-core basis for running its software on the powerful dual-core Power5 processor it makes in house.IBM says the boost in power that customers will get from the new dual-core chips from AMD and Intel will be only incremental.
We've got a real fast processor; it can handle the participation.
The Pentium Pro wasn't just a new processor, it was a new processor core.
As a four-bit processor, it was capable of only 24, or 16, distinct combinations, or "words".
Because it runs a less powerful processor, it has no fan and is just 10 inches long and about 1 inch thick.
The whole thing is held together with olive oil, and if you have a small food processor, it can be produced in little more than a minute.
