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For those of you that are old enough to remember the birth of the AMD Athlon CPU then you might also remember that AMD picked up quite a bit of the technology from a company called DEC. DEC had a CPU that at the time was simply amazing. To make matters worse it was a 667MHz CPU that was able to run rings around both Intel’s and AMD’s 1GHZ CPUs. There were multiple reasons for this but the most under rated one was the efficient caching structure. The DEC Alpha processor was light years ahead of most CPUs on the market at the time, but due to it being a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) CPU it was not as flexible as even the slower X86 CPUs.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched a new exhibit with the help of Invent Now, Inc. The Exhibit is features the Patents of Steve Jobs; and has been designed to look like a long string of iPhones. According to the USPTO the exhibit will feature over 300 patents that were awarded for Steve Jobs along with some of Apple’s trademarks.