"ROBOTS: Intel eyes robotic-controller sockets for Xscale"
Intel Corp. may have uncovered a new direction for its chip-making expertise: low-power, high-performance robotic controllers. The interest generated by such products surfaced at a recent symposium that Intel held on the possibilities of robotic uses for its Xscale microarchitecture.

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