The upgrade on the machine includes a boost to the system bus--the primary pathway between the central processing chip and the computer's memory, from 100 MHz to 133 MHz.

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Merging magnets with semiconductors would allow a chip to combine a computer's memory and logic functions.

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The chip relied on a form of memory that would have made putting the processor in a computer too expensive to compete on price with older Pentiums.

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Top candidates include its memory chip business, its Itanium server chips and several smaller businesses based around other categories of computer components for functions like storage and networking.

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