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The face of computing is about to change with the development of novel technologies, including super fast chips, flexible displays, nanotube cooling, mobile devices with a built-in printer, and more. Power cords used when laptops run out of batteries will be a thing of the past with the arrival of a conductive-charging notebook product from WildCharge in 2008 and an inductive charging technology for cars, countertops and desk surfaces from eCoupled in 2009. The first-ever pocket-size digital camera with a built-in printer will be rolled out by Zink, in partnership with a leading camera supplier, in 2008. The company will also begin offering a small handheld printer for camera phones. The first flexible displays, developed by Polymer Vision, will be unveiled in 2008 on a cell phone from Telecom India. The device will have the world's first Polymer Vision rollable display measuring 5 inches with a 320-by-240-pixel. For chip technologies, both AMD and Intel have opted to increase the number of processor cores on a chip, which would greatly boost computing power without overheating. AMD has developed a quad-core chip, called Phenom, which it aims to launch in 2008. Intel has been offering quad-core processors for desktops since 2006 and has announced the release of eight-core chips for servers in 2008. Eight-core chips are expected to be available for desktops in 2010.
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