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The chipmaker's new tools are designed to increase the performance of software written for its Pentium, Xeon and Itanium processors. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites. I ...