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04

AMD Athlon 64 (Venice) 3000+, 3200+, 3500+, 3800+ were released on April 4th. Venice is the 90nm E3 core successor to Winchester, built on an SOI Dual Stress Liner process (IBM's enhanced version of Intel's Strained Silicon technology, offering around a 24% reduction in response time rather than the 15-20% of strained silicon). Venice is intended to offer a higher frequency headroom than Winchester, and is designed to replace the Newcastle core completely (Newcastle is currently used in the higher frequency Athlon 64s, offering better clock speeds despite it utilising an older 130nm process). Venice offers two main architectural enhancements over Winchester - an Enhanced Memory Controller and the support of SSE3 functions. The memory controller in Venice features enhanced hardware data prefetch and 4 (rather than 2) write combining buffers. The enhancements to the memory controller include the support of additional, asynchronous memory timings of 13/12, 7/6, 5/4 and 4/3 (allowing DDR speeds of up to 500Mhz, dependant on the processor, with the formula used being DRAM Clock = CPU Clock / (ceil(CPU Clock Multiplier/Memory Divider)), e.g. for a 2.0Ghz Athlon 64 3200+ at 4/3 we would have 2000 / ceil(10/(4/3)) = 2000 / 8 = 250Mhz - 500Mhz DDR) and also the ability to run four single sided DIMMs at 400Mhz with 1T timing and four double sided DIMMs at 400Mhz with 2T (previously 4 x single sided DIMMs would only work at 2T and 4 x double sided DIMMs would be forced to run at DDR333). Venice also features 11 new SSE3 instructions - 2 fewer than Intel's SSE3 implementation as the Hyperthreading MONITOR and MWAIT instructions are not implemented.
Initial benchmarks have shown Venice to offer somewhere between a 0.5% and 5% improvement in applications (the 5% being 3DMark05), with games on average performing around 1.5% better than an equivalently clocked Winchester. Overclocking potential is also improved noticeably, with somewhere around 2.9Ghz achievable on air compared to an average of around 2.6Ghz for Winchester.

AMD Sempron 3300+ (Palermo Rev. E) was released on April 4th running at 2Ghz and built on a 90nm process. This new revision of the Sempron is based around the Venice core, with SSE3 and an improved memory controller, but with 128KB L2 (half that of it's predecessor) and no AMD64 instructions. Palermo Revision E shows a 0-5.5% performance advantage over the previous Palermo core (Sempron 3100+, with the differences due to the enhanced core and 200Mhz clock speed increase, but being reduced by the halving of the L2 cache), with the best speed increases in Games. As was the case with Venice, Palermo Revision E offers superior overclocking to the previous core, with clock speeds around 2.7Ghz feasible on air.

nVidia nForce 4 Intel Edition for the Intel platform was released on April 5th. nForce4 IE is a two chip solution featuring the C19 Northbridge alongside the MCP04 Southbridge, and offers support for a 1066MHz processor system bus as well as EM64T, XD and EIST technologies. The Northbridge supports dual channel DDR2 533 and 667 memory, with the MCH offering the same featureset as nForce4 for AMD (nVidia RAID, nVidia ActiveArmor firewall, nVidia Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA-300 etc). As with the AMD based nForce 4, the nForce 4 Intel Edition will feature support for nVidia's SLI GPU technology.

MSN Messenger 7 was released on April 7th.

MSN Spaces was released on April 7th.

Mobile AMD Athlon 64 3700+ was released on April 15th.

ATI Radeon Xpress 200M chipset for Mobile Intel processors was announced on April 20th. The Radeon Xpress 200M supports Intel Pentium M, Intel Mobile Pentium 4 and Intel Celeron M
processors, a 533MHz FSB, dual-channel DDR400 or DDR2-667, PC Express and a built-in RADEON X300 based graphics core offering full DirectX 9.0 capabilities.

AMD Opteron 8xx (Egypt) is the 1-8 way, 90nm successor to Athens, was released on April 21st with the first shipments expected on April 27th. Egypt is AMD's first dual core CPU, with each core being based around a modified Venice core, including an enhanced memory controller, SSE3 etc. Unlike Intel's Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition dual core CPUs, which are essentially two P4 cores glued together, requiring the CPUs to talk over the external FSB, AMD's design is rather more advanced. The two cores have independent L2 caches, but have a shared system request interface, memory controller and HT links. Core to core communication is far more efficient, as the cores do not have to go across the external FSB to communicate with each other and this allows a more advanced and efficient cache coherency algorithm to be used. The CPU itself utilises a refined fabrication process, which optimises for power effeminacy - using lower leakage, but slower switching, transistors for instance - rather than raw linear speed. This allows a 2.2Ghz dual core processor to have the same power and thermal properties as a 2.6Ghz single core die. The first CPUs to be released are the Opteron 865 (1.8Ghz), Opteron 870 (2.0Ghz) and Opteron 875 (2.2GHz).
Initial benchmarks suggest that a dual core Opteron offers slightly better performance than two single core Opterons of the same clock speed.

AMD Opteron 2xx (Italy) is the 1-2 way, 90nm successor to Troy, was released on April 21st with the first shipments occurring on May 21st. Italy is a dual core CPU, initially released as the Opteron 265 (1.8Ghz), Opteron 270 (2.0Ghz) and Opteron 275 (2.2GHz). See the Egypt Roadmap entry for additional details about this CPU.

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, to support AMD and Intel's 64-bit x86 extensions, was released on April 25th. WinXP x86 Edition went gold on March 30th following the final build (1830) being built on March 26th and passing finalisation. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition supports up to 128GB of memory (the 32-bit edition supports 2GB for Applications plus 2GB for the OS) and up to 16 terabytes of virtual memory.

Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions was released on April 25th, after going gold on March 30th. Window Server 2003 64-bit Edition is expected to provide up to an 8% performance increase for 32-bit applications running on 64-bit windows. There will be three 64-bit releases - Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition (32GB memory support, 1-4 processors), Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition (1TB memory, 1-8 processors) and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter x64 Edition (1TB memory, 8-64 processors).

MacOS X 10.4 "Tiger" was released on April 29th. Tiger offers a number of improvements over the previous Panther release, including more extensive 64-bit support, improved SMP performance and a host of new functionality including Smart Folders (a folder containing pointers to files), Spotlight (a system search engine), Dashboard (a second desktop containing a number of dashboard widgets such as Weather, Calculator, Address book, Yellow pages, Stock market ticker, Flight times, Dictionary, Stickies, Translation, Unit convertions, World clock etc). Tiger also features an updated browser - Safari RSS - which allows the reading of RSS feeds in the browser as well as offering improved performance and other useful features. There is also an improved email client, Automator (AppleScript automation tool), improved text teditor - TextEdit, New and improved calculators including scientific and graphing calculators and generally improved performance.

05

Intel Pentium Extreme Edition was released on May 1st. The Pentium Extreme Edition is based around the Smithfield core, but features Hyperthreading support in each of the cores and runs on a 1066Mhz FSB.  The first CPU in the series runs at a clock speed of 3.2Ghz.

AMD CPU Price cuts occurred on May 2nd. See the AMD CPU Prices page for additional information.

AMD Athlon 64 (San Diego) was released on May 2nd. is the 90nm successor to Clawhammer (Athlon 64), expected to be released on Q3. San Diego is the large cache version of Venice, offering the same improvements to the memory controller and SSE3 functionality. The initial members of the San Diego family are the 3700+ (2.2Ghz) and 4000+ (2.4Ghz).

ATI Radeon X800 XL 512MB graphics card was released on May 5th to compete with nVidia's GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB - at least in terms of framebuffer size! The card is based on an Radeon X800 XL GPU with 512MB of local framebuffer. Initial tests have shown a negligible speed increase in current games over the 256MB model under virtually all conditions, with only slight performance increases at extremely high resolutions with Anti Aliasing and Ansiotropic filtering, where framerates are too low to be playable anyway.

Microsoft X-Box 360 was announced on May 12th (in a half hour TV programme on MTV) with a global release expected in November.

Sony Playstation 3 was announced on May 16th at E3. It is expected to be launched in Spring 2006.

Nintendo Game Boy Micro was announced May 17th and is expected to be released in the Fall. The GBM would appear to be a smaller version of Nintendo's Gameboy Advance SP - the games will be the same as the current Game Boy Advance SP. However, the GBM is significantly smaller at 4" x 2" x 0.7" and weighs in at 2.8 ounces. The screen is also brighter than the GBA and removable face plates will let users customize the device.

Netscape 8.0 was released on May 19th by AOL. Netscape 8.0 is based on the Mozilla Firefox core, with the initial release being based on Firefox 1.0.3 (although this was quickly patched to 1.0.4 with release 8.0.1). In addition, it allows the user to dynamically change to using IE as the rendering engine.

Intel Pentium 4 670 was released on May 26th. The P4 670 is likely to be the fastest single core CPU to be released in the foreseeable future from Intel, running at a clock speed of 3.8Ghz. The Pentium 4 670 is based around the Prescott 2M core of the Pentium 6xx series.

Intel Pentium D 8xx (Smithfield) IA-32 processor was released on May 26th with wide availability in Q3. Smithfield is the successor to Prescott and is a dual-core design featuring 230 million transistors built on a 90nm process. Smithfield features 1MB L2 cache per core for a total of 2MB, and is essentially two Prescott 1Ms stuck together, but with Hyperthreading support disabled in each core. Pentium D processors will all run on an 800Mhz FSB. The first Pentium Ds released will be available as models 820 (2.8Ghz), 830 (3.0Ghz) and 840 (3.2GHz).

Intel i945P (Lakeport P) chipset for the P4 600 series and Smithfield was released on May 26th. The i945 chipsets are the successor to the i915 series featuring support for a 533, 800 and 1066Mhz FSB speed, PCI Express and Dual Channel DDR2-667 with Intel's Flex Memory Technology, allowing different DIMM sizes to still be used in Dual Channel mode. The i945P is paired with Intel's ICH7 South Bridge.

Intel i945G (Lakeport G) chipset for the P4 600 series and Smithfield was released on May 26th. Based around the i945P chipset, the i945G additionally features an integrated graphics core with DirectX 9 support, ready for Windows Longhorn. The Integrated Graphics is provided by Intel's Graphics Media Accelerator 950 GPU. GMA 950 is a 256-bit graphics core running at 400MHz and featuring support for Pixel Shader 2.0, with Vertex Shader 3.0 support is provided by the driver in software. GMA 950 supports up to 4 pixels per clock rendering, giving a fill rate of 1.6 GPixels/sec and 1.6 GTexels/sec. Compared to the GMA900 in the i915G chipset GMA950 runs at a faster (400Mhz compared to GMA900's 333Mhz) and adds support for anisotropic filtering. The addition of DDR2 667 memory also improves the available memory bandwidth to 10.9GB/sec (compared to 8.5GB/sec in the i915G), which the GMA950 can utilise. Despite the minor improvements, GMA950 still offers rather lacklustre performance, with game performance at best half of nVidia's entry level GeForce 6200 TurboCache. Lakeport will be paired with Intel's ICH7 South Bridge.

Intel i955X Express (Glenwood) chipset for Prescott 2M and Smithfield was released on May 26th. This chipsets is the successor to the i925XE and the high performance version of the i945 chipsets. In addition to the featureset of the i945 series, the i955X features support for Hyperthreading technology and Intel's Memory Pipeline Technology. The Memory Pipeline Technology is rather like Intel's PAT, first implemented in Intel's i875 chipset, accelerating data transfers from main memory. Glenwood is paired with Intel's ICH7 South Bridge.

Intel ICH7 South Bridge was released on May 26th alongside the i945 chipset. ICH7 is expected to feature support for Intel High Definition Audio, PCIe x1, MST (Matrix Storage Technology for RAID 0, 1 and 10), iAMT (Intel Active Management Technology) and Energy Lake power management technology. ICH 7 is available in a number of revisions:

ICH7 - Base revision
ICH7 R - RAID with Matrix Storage Technology.
ICH7 DH - 'Digital Home' revision with MST and Energy Lake.
ICH7 DO - 'Digital Office' revision with iAMT.
ICH7 DE - 'Digital Enterprise' revision with iAMT and MST.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Manchester) was released on May 31st, although wide availability is not expected until Q3/Q4. The Athlon 64 X2 Manchester core contains 2x512KB caches. See the Egypt Roadmap entry for additional details about this CPU.

The initial members of the Athlon 64 X2 Manchester are outlined below:

Athlon 64 X2 4600+ - 2.4Ghz - 1MB (2x512KB) - $803
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ - 2.2Ghz - 1MB (2x512KB) - $537

AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Toledo) was released on May 31st, although wide availability is not expected until Q3/Q4. The Athlon 64 X2 Toledo core contains 2x1MB caches. See the Egypt Roadmap entry for additional details about this CPU.

The initial members of the Athlon 64 X2 Toledo are outlined below:

Athlon 64 X2 4800+ - 2.4Ghz - 2MB (2x1MB) - $1001
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ - 2.2Ghz - 2MB (2x1MB) - $581

ATI Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire-Edition (RD400) chipset for the Intel platform was announced on May 31st and released on September 27th. The RD400 supports the Pentium 4, Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition processors, offering a 1066Mhz FSB, Dual Channel DDR2-667, PCI Express and support for ATI's Crossfire Multi VPU technology. The RD400 supports two x16 PCI Express slots, with each slot running at x8 by when in Crossfire mode. As with nVidia's nForce 4 SLI chipset, the primary port can be changed to x16 operation via a terminator card, an SLI selector card (the same card used for nForce4 SLI), or selector ICs (as used in Asus A8N-SLI Premium). In addition to running in Master/Slave mode, with a Crossfire Edition and standard edition Radeon X8xx VPU, it seems that the board will support dual Slave cards (i.e. two standard edition cards), with communication going through the North Bridge and compositing done by the CPU. The RD400 can be paired with either ULi's M1573 southbridge, offering 6 channels of SATA RAID and Azalia Audio, or ATI's own IXP 450 southbridge offering SATA support, but no SATA2 or NCQ.

ATI Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire-Edition (RD480) chipset, renamed to Crossfire Xpress 1600 in April 2006) for AMD platforms was announced on May 31st and released on September 27th. The RD480 is the AMD equivalent of the RD400 chipset for Intel processors, supporting PCI Express, DDR400 and ATI's Crossfire Multi VPU technology. Like the RD400, the RD480 can be paired with either ULi's M1573 or ATI's IXP 450 southbridge.

ATI Radeon X850 Crossfire Edition GPU was announced on May 31st and released on September 27th. The X850 Crossfire Edition is physically identical to a normal Radeon X850 card with the addition of a compositing engine chip that is responsible for combining the output of the Master Crossfire Edition card and the Slave Radeon X850 card to form the output video. The two cards communicate over DVI-D, with a cable externally connecting the cards together - rather like a pair of Voodoo 2 SLI cards. There are a number of rendering algorithms supported by Crossfire - Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR), Split Frame Rendering (SFR) and Supertiling. The SFR rendering mode is not quite as flexible as nVidia's as the workload split between the two cards is fixed at a 50/50, 60/40 or 70/30 split, pre-determined on an application by application basis by the Catalyst drivers. Supertiling is unique to ATI. The display is divided into 32x32 pixel tiles in a checkerboard pattern, with each card working on alternate tiles. This rendering mode is not supported for OpenGL, but for DirectX it has the advantage of splitting the workload more evenly than SFR. In addition to these rendering modes, there are also new "Super AA" Anti Aliasing modes exposed when two cards are present in a system - 8X, 10X, 12X and 14X. The two cards each render the same frame with different anti-aliasing patterns, and the compositing chip blends them together. 8X and 12X multisampling are created by combining 4X or 6X AA modes respectively. 10X and 14X modes combine 8X or 12X multisampling with 2X supersampling.
Initial benchmarks show a 50 to 85 percent performance improvement when using Crossfire. The Crossfire Edition VPUs will be available late July / early August, with the 256MB X850 model expected to retail for $549.

ATI Radeon X800 Crossfire Edition GPU was announced on May 31st and released on September 27th. The X800 Crossfire Edition can be paired with any X800 GPU, with the 256MB model expected to retail for $299 and the 128MB model for $249. See the X850 Crossfire Edition Roadmap entry for additional details.

AMD Sempron 3300+ for Socket 754 was released on May 31st (?). This processor is based on the Palermo core.

06

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives started volume shipments in Late May / Early June from Hitachi and Fujitsu. This first revision of SAS supports data transfer rates of up to 3Gb/s.

ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT (M28 Pro) Mobile GPU was released on June 6th. The M28 Pro is the successor to the Mobility Radeon X800 featuring sixteen pixel pipelines, rather than the 12 of the M28, but is otherwise identical. The M28 Pro's main competitor is nVidia's GeForce Go 6800 Ultra, which it roughly equals in terms of performance (as is usual some games prefer ATI's architecture and others nVidia's, although on average ATI is a little faster).

Intel Pentium 4 5x1 series of CPUs were released on June 12th. The 5x1 series is the successor to the previous Prescott 5x0 series and will be identical (1Mb L2 etc) apart from the addition of EM64T (64-bit) technology. The 5x0 series will initially consist of the 521 (2.8 Ghz), 531 (3.0 Ghz), 541 (3.2 Ghz), 551 (3.4 Ghz), 561 (3.6 Ghz) and 571 (3.8 Ghz).

Intel Compilers 9.0 (C++ and Fortran versions) for both Windows and Linux was released on June 14th. These compilers optimise Hyperthreading and Multi Core performance. Both the Linux and Windows versions start at $399 for the C++ compiler and $499 for the Fortran compiler.

ATI Radeon X550 (RV370XT) was released on June 15th. The X550 is aimed to be the PCI Express version of the AGP Radeon 9550, offering similar performance. The architecture is based on the Radeon X300 with 4 pixel pipelines. The X550 runs at a clock speed of 400Mhz interfacing to 200Mhz DDR memory over a 128-bit bus.

nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX (G70) GPU was released on June 22nd and contains 302 million transistors on a 110nm process (slightly less than ATI's R520). The G70 is based around the NV40 architecture, but features a number of architectural improvements including an increased number of vertex and pixel pipelines (24 pixel pipelines and 8 vertex pipelines compared to 16/6 in NV40), improvements to the vertex and pixel pipelines themselves, an increase in memory clock speed (1.2Ghz compared to 1.1Ghz in the GeForce 6800 Ultra), improvements to the Raster Opterators (although the number of ROPs hasn't been increased at 16), general core optimisations and a small number of new features. Whilst the official core clock speed of the G70 is said to be 430Mhz (GF6800U is 400Mhz), this is rather misleading. The G70 has multiple clocks, with different parts of the chip operating at different clock speeds - for example the Geometric clock runs 40Mhz faster than the specified 'core' clock. Additionally each clock is dynamic with it's speed dependant on the load which helps keep the chip cool and lowers power consumption.

There have been two major improvements to the Vertex pipeline. Firstly the scalar unit is 20 to 30% more efficient than that of NV40, and secondly the performance of the vertex texture fetch unit has increased. In the pixel pipeline the floating point texture processor has had a significant overhaul, significantly improving high dynamic range (HDR) rendering. Additionally the two FP32 shader units of the pixel pipeline have been modified so they can perform two Vect4 MADD (Multiply Add - one of the most common operations in pixel shader programs) operations per cycle instead of one. In NV40 only one of the FP32 units could perform a MADD, but both the FP32 units in G70 can now perform this operation.

Although the fill rate of G70 is theoretically the same as a similarly clocked NV40 (as both have 16 ROPs), the ROP units have been overhauled ro provide superior performance and functionality. The performance of sRGB gamma correction has been improved, and a new feature called Transparency Adaptive Anti-Aliasing has been added. TAAA allows the Anti-Aliasing of transparent textures when performing Multi Sampling Anti Aliasing (which normally only anti aliases the edges of polygons, not transparent textures within polygons), but allows superior performance to full screen Supersampling AA. Transparent textures can either be anti aliased using either a MSAA or SSAA algorithm, with the user being able to specify which of the aforementioned algorithms are used (SSAA, of course, offers superior results at a slight performance cost, but still nowhere near the hit caused by Full screen Super Sampling).

In addition to offering an optimised version of the NV40 featureset, G70 offers one new feature not found on NV40 - Normal Map Compression. The Normal Map compression is compatible with ATI's 3Dc compression technology introduced in the Radeon X800 series of GPUs, which should mean wider acceptance of this technology in forthcoming games.

In terms of 2D features, the GeForce 7800 GTX features a more optimised version of the PureVideo video processors introduced with the NV40. The three video processors were actually broken in NV40, but corrected for the GeForce 6600 and later GPUs. G70 introduces performance improvements to these parts which has the effect of reducing CPU overhead by around 15% when playing a 1080p WMV HD clip.

The card itself is both smaller and less noisy than a GeForce 6800 card, offering a much improved heatsink and fan arrangement which allows 7800 cards to be single slot. nVidia have utilised the knowledge gained when creating the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra meaning that the power requirements of the GeForce 7800 GTX are actually lower than the less complex GeForce 6800 Ultra (100W peak rather than 110W for NV40).

Initial benchmarks indicate the performance to be anywhere between slightly less than a X850XTPE to faster than an SLIed 6800 Ultra setup, although on average it is around 20-30% faster than a 6800 Ultra in today's most demanding games making it the fastest card by a reasonable margin on release (although we will have to wait for the R520 to see how it compares to the competition). The introduction of Transparency Adaptive Anti-Aliasing and much improved HDR rendering performance means that the 7800 series also offers unparalleled image quality. The GeForce 7800 GTX is initially available with 256MB of memory and a recommended retail price of $599.

AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 was released on June 27th on the San Diego core. The Athlon 64 FX-57 runs at a clock speed of 2.8Ghz and contains 1Mb L2 cache.

Windows 2000 UR1 was released on June 27th. Updated Rollup 1 will be a package containing all the critical updates released since Windows 2000 SP4 was released.

Intel Celeron D with EM64T support was released on June 28th. The EMT64 Celeron series is the successor to the previous Celeron D S775 procesor series, being identical apart from the addition of EM64T (64-bit) technology. The series will initially consist of the 326 (2.53 GHz), 331 (2.66 GHz), 336 (2.8 GHz), 341 (2.93 GHz), 346 (3.06 GHz) and 351 (3.2GHz).

Intel Celeron D 350 (3.2Ghz) was release on June 28th. Featuring EDB support, but not EMT64, the 350 is available on Socket 478.

Intel CPU Price changes occurred on June 28th. See the Intel CPU Prices page for additional information.

ATI RS482 chipset for AMD platforms is expected to be released in June. The RS482 is the successor to the ATI RS480, and is identical apart from a process reduction from 0.13 to 0.11 micron.

ATI RC410 for the Intel platform is expected to be released in June. The RC410 is the successor to the ATI RC400, featuring ATI's SB450 southbridge containing support for high -efinition audio.

Q2

VIA PM890 chipset for the Pentium 4 series is expected to be released in Q2. The PM890 is expected to support dual channel DDR400 or DDR2 667 and 1xPCI Express x16 slot 2xPCI Express x1 slots. The PM890 will also include include integrated DeltaChrome graphics providing DirectX 9 functionality with DuoView and an internal video processor.

VIA K8T935 chipset for the Athlon 64 / Opteron is expected to be released in Q3.  The K8T935 will be VIA's first single-chip core-logic solution and the successor to the K8T890 Pro, although it is intended for use in the Server and Workstation environments (e.g. Opteron). The K8T935 is expected to feature 800MHz or 1000MHz HyperTransport, PCI Express lanes allowing SLI configuration, 6 x Serial ATA II ports with RAID (0, 1, 0+1, JBOD) and support for PCI-X 64-bit 66MHz/100MHz/133MHz.

H1

AMD Turion (Newark)  64-bit mobile CPU is expected to be released in H1. Newark is the replacement for the Mobile Athlon 64 (Oakville) and is expected to feature 1MB L2 cache and be built on a 90nm process. The clock speeds of these processors are currently expected to be 2.0Ghz (3200+) and 2.2Ghz (3400+).

AMD Georgetown mobile CPU is expected to be released in H1. Georgetown is the 90nm replacement for the Mobile Sempron.

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