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Chinese Government Brands Pentium III a Security Risk.


The curse of the Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE).  serial number has struck again, this time the Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
  • Chinese Soviet Republic
  • Provisional Government of the Republic of China
  • Reformed Government of the Republic of China
 has branded the Intel Corp chip a security risk. The ministry for industrial computer science is reported to have declared that Pentium III systems should not be connected directly to the internet. Presumably pre·sum·a·ble  
adj.
That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster.
 because of the possibility of a user's movements on the web being monitored. However, Intel spokesperson Howard High said that as far as he was aware, Pentium III systems could be sold to the Chinese government as long as the embedded Inserted into. See embedded system.  serial number function had been disabled.
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Publication:Computergram International
Geographic Code:9CHIN
Date:Aug 2, 1999
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