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The INQUIRER would like to show you how heat pipes and vapour chambers work. "You all know what they look like from the outside, copper tubes that go from the bottom of some very expensive and odd-looking heat sinks to the fins up top."
On December 15, at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco, Intel plans to release details on its 32nm chip fabrication technology. But even more impressive is the news coming out of AMD who claim to have a 22nm process. "From the sounds of things, we can expect to start seeing 32nm chips from Intel around the third or fourth quarter of 2009 and 22nm chips from AMD".
Google has just announced the release of Chrome Beta 03.154.9 which addresses several security bugs as well as minor improvements in user interface and a number of other small issues raised by users. "Version 03.154.9 may be primarily a bugfix release, but it demonstrates Google's commitment to continuing Chrome development, tackling security vulnerabilities, and addressing some of the complaints that have been raised by users".
According to Cnet, AMD has just released their answer to Intel's Xeon range of processors, the Shanghai Opteron, a 45 nanometre quad core CPU. "AMD is hoping to make a much better impression with Shanghai. Its first quad-core chip, Barcelona, was rolled out in September 2007 to great fanfare only to be delayed a whopping eight months (or more, depending how the delay is calculated) due to production glitches and bugs. This gave Intel an opportunity to regain ground it had lost to AMD in the server chip market".
It would seem that not a day goes by where we don't hear either about the Rudd Government internet filtering plans or the ongoing debate regarding game censorship. According to a report on Sydney Morning Herald website, South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson withdrew his support for a discussion paper, effectively censoring the censorship debate. "Censorship ministers in March agreed "in principle" to canvas public opinion on the proposed introduction of a R18+ classification for games and release a discussion paper on the issue, but Mr Atkinson has refused to agree to make the report public, effectively shelving it."
In gaming news, GamesIndustry.biz says that Bethesda Studios employees has leaked company's upcoming plans for a new Elder Scrolls title in 2010. "Fallout 3 publisher Bethesda has indicated that the next title in the hugely popular Elder Scrolls series will be released in 2010."
Atari has confirmed that it has acquired the rights to a new Chronicles of Riddick game. "The new game was originally supposed to be published by Sierra, but was one of many titles sent into limbo when the publisher fell into trouble after the Activision and Blizzard merger."
Meanwhile GameSpot posted a preview of Tom Clancy's End War: The Weapons of the World War III for XBox 360. ""Clancy-proofing." This is the process that every would-be high-tech geopolitical action thriller must go through before it gets stamped with the official Tom Clancy license. This means that every weapon in the game must be accurate, down to stopping power and explosion radius. Now comes the scary part. The future weapons of massive destruction that litter the battlefields of End War and fuel the fictional World War III have also been Clancy-proofed. Though these harbingers of Armageddon don't exist today, they are based on existing research and prototype technology. Fear the future."
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