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Sparked by the jaw-dropping success of Apple's iTunes store, an array of enterprise software vendors are getting into the "app store" act.

Signifying a formless haze of computing power and storage that is somewhere "out there," computerdom's current buzzword is as difficult to get one's arms around as a real cloud. A seemingly limitless pool of processors and memory and disk space, and you just scoop out what you need. Sounds great, doesn't it?

Intel plans to detail the architecture of its upcoming Larrabee chip at the SIGGRAPH conference on August 12, but the company will keep one important aspect of the chip under wraps: the number of cores it will have.

IBM announced an upgraded version of its blade server based on the Cell processor on Wednesday, adding memory and data throughput for better performance on high-end applications such as graphics and finance.

Microprocessor makers say they can meet demand for greater processing power and energy efficiency with research aired at an industry conference Tuesday in California.

Following their march from standard processors to dual-core and quad-core designs in 2006, Intel researchers have built an 80-core chip that performs more than a teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) while using less electricity than a modern desktop PC chip.

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By 2015, Intel hopes that its early forays into multicore processors and virtualization technology will evolve to more sophisticated technologies that can deliver the levels of performance necessary to transform computing, Intel's research and development chief said Thursday at the Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF).

The "tera" era of the computing world is approaching, and the semiconductor industry is going to have to rethink many of the architectural approaches it has taken to build today's processors in order to handle the vast datasets of the future, said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Intel Corp., in a keynote address Thursday at the Spring Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

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