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Sifting for News at Intel's Annual Research Day

Each year, Intel invites the media to an event in Silicon Valley that’s a bit like a high school science fair. Hard news is scarce, but one gleans tidbits about some long-term directions in the computer industry. At the session held Thursday, bright young people from the chip maker’s research labs positioned themselves around a large room, armed with computers and other gadgets to help explain their projects to anyone who walked up.