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This article was written on September 21, 2007 by CyberNet.

Forbes has released their list of the 400 richest Americans where this year, even one BILLION dollars wasn’t enough to land you on the list.  As we’ve heard, the rich are getting richer with the minimum net worth on this list being $1.3 billion dollars compared to $300 million last year.

Topping the list, as expected, is Bill Gates with a net worth of over 59 Billion. Coming in 2nd place with a net worth of $52 billion is Gates’ close friend, Warren Buffet. There are a handful of other names and companies found in the top 400 that are familiar in the tech World, and within that list were four from Microsoft, five from Google, two from eBay and two from Yahoo.

Take a look below at some of those familiar names and companies. You’ll notice that both Sergey Brin and Larry Page are on the list ranked at #5. Compared to last year, their net worth increased by $4.4 billion and $4.5 billion respectively. Just with the 16 individuals below, they have a combined net worth of 184 Billion! If we were to add up the net worth of the entire Forbes 400 list, it would be $1.54 trillion. Now that’s a lot of money!

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Intel’s Haswell processors promise better performance and improved battery life, and results have been evident in all of the products that carry these processors. Acer and HP opted to use the Haswell processors in their Chromebooks which were unveiled earlier this year. If the latest from Taiwanese trade publication Digitimes is to be believed, both ASUS and Toshiba might go down the same road next year. Both manufacturers are expected to launch their own Intel Haswell powered Chromebooks in 2014.

According to sources cited in the report, prices of ASUS’s Chromebooks might range between $199 and $329. The first wave will include 11.6 inch and 13.3 inch models. A concrete release date is not known, but sources expect the release might happen in the first half of 2014. Toshiba too is rumored to unveil its Haswell Chromebooks next year, though the company is said to outsource production to Inventec. No expected price point or release time frame is available for Toshiba’s Chrome OS powered notebooks, it is not even known what display size the Japanese manufacturer is going to opt. At this point in time, shipment of Chromebooks account for under 5 percent of all notebook shipments, the addition of two new manufacturers and their products is likely to improve the figure.

ASUS And Toshiba Expected To Launch Intel Haswell Powered Chromebooks In 2014 original content from Ubergizmo.

It has been known for quite some time now that Intel has been working on an internet based TV service which would be powered through a set-top box that would be built by the company itself. However Intel’s TV service has failed to take off and recently it has been rumored multiple times that the chip maker is looking to offload the entire project. The latest from Bloomberg News suggests that Intel is asking $500 million for the service and it looks to wrap up the sale by the end of this year, which isn’t that far off.

The report says that Intel had created set-top boxes during the time it was working on its internet TV project and that it also developed mobile applications for smartphones and tablets through which subscribers would have been able to stream content. It goes without saying that Intel did put in substantial resources in this project, one that it now looks to get off its hands. Verizon has been rumored to be interested in the project, which is headed by the Intel Media division. The latest report once again hints at Verizon as a possible buyer, Big Red can use the division to expand its footing in the TV reach beyond FiOS. Verizon and Intel are said to be in talks, but no official confirmation has materialized as yet.

Intel Reportedly Wants $500 Million For Its Internet TV Service original content from Ubergizmo.

Intel’s current Xeon Phi doesn’t really fulfill the promise of many-core computing — it’s a co-processor that needs a ‘real’ CPU to function. That will change when the next-generation Knights Landing model arrives, Intel revealed at the Supercomputing Conference this week. The 14-nanometer chip will be available as a stand-alone model that can run all software, like a traditional processor; since it won’t have to shuttle data between two components, it should be faster, easier to program and cheaper, too. There will also be high-speed memory built into the chip, as well as a number of (unspecified) architectural tweaks. Knights Landing isn’t likely to ship until late 2014 or 2015, but it could be worth the wait for researchers, server operators and anyone else who wants massively parallel computing power.

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