First we take mi-cro-soft...then we take IBM.

[Matthew X]

Microsoft has welcomed the noise surrounding the announcement of its 
Palladium initiative -- a planned security-oriented overhaul of how 
hardware and software interact with each other. While some analysts seem 
skeptical about Microsoft's ability to wed the Windows operating system to 
its security and privacy plans -- some of which are based on a new security 
chip capable of cryptography and other defense measures -- they said the 
company is one of the only technology players capable of pulling it off.
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'Cell' Supercomputing Chip Closer to Completion
  The initial design phase for IBM's mysterious new chip architecture, 
known as Cell, has ended and is now in the hands of engineers, company 
officials said. A supercomputer on a chip, Cell is a joint project of IBM, 
Toshiba and Sony. It is expected to be more than 100 times faster than a 
2.5 GHz Pentium 4 chip.
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