Microsoft and Intel Join 2 Universities
posted 6:23 pm Tue March 18, 2008 - BERKELEY, Calif.
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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 (web|news|quote) 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.
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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