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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - A new partnership among two personal computing giants and two major research universities aims to bring advances in processing technology to consumers faster.
Under an agreement announced Tuesday, Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are joining the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to push developments in parallel computing.
Parallel computing speeds computers enabling them to perform tasks at the same time on multiple chips.
The companies are expected to invest about $20 million in research centers at both universities over the next five years.
Technologies the centers may pursue include face recognition and voice recognition.

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URBANA, Ill. - A new partnership between two massive computer companies and the University of Illinois will help consumer products use the same technology that drives high-speed supercomputers.

Under an agreement announced Tuesday, the U of I will become home to one of two new research centers funded by Microsoft Corp. and Intel Inc.

The $18 million Universal Parallel Computing Research Center will involve 22 faculty members from the school’s computer science and computer engineering departments.

The center will focus on the mass-market use of so-called parallel computing, the process of having tasks performed at the same time on multiple processors.

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