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Well it 's AMD , and IBM on the server side , so it kind of evens out , " Ross said.The transistor advance is the latest twist in the microprocessor industry , which has seen dramatic shifts in fortune over the past couple of years.In the latest round , Intel is believed to be beating back AMD , which had been grabbing market share thanks to chips that were more powerful and efficient than Intel's.The past year has been rough on Intel and AMD shares as a price war chews into profits and gross margins at both companies.Intel shares , which closed at $ 20.53 on Friday , have fallen 5 percent over the past year , versus a drop of nearly 60 percent for AMD stock , which ended at $ 16.22.Industry progress is guided by Moore 's Law , the industry maxim laid down by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years or so.The current cutting edge of chip production is based on a manufacturing process that etches circuits just 65 nanometers across - - more than a thousand times thinner than a human hair.Intel has long planned to begin making chips with 45-nanometer circuits later this year , and it said last week it has successfully produced working processors on that scale , putting it on track to meet its timetable.But although the companies use Moore 's Law as a guide , the shrinking process is far from automatic.Each generation poses new challenges , and engineers are now dealing with such tiny sizes that they continually need to tweak basic elements of chip design.Last Friday 's developments involve replacing a silicon-based material used in one layer of chips since the 1960s with a substance based on hafnium , an exotic metal used in the nuclear industry.Ross said that although AMD has a much smaller research effort than Intel , its partnership with IBM had given it some tricks to keep it competitive . The pallet is then lowered into the innards of the garage , and transported to a vacant parking space by a computer-controlled contraption similar to an elevator that also runs sideways.There is no human supervision , but an attendant will be on hand to accept cash and explain the system to baffled humans.Parking rates will be competitive _ about $ 400 monthly or $ 25 per day , according to Ari Milstein , the director of planning for Automotion Parking Systems , the U.S. subsidiary of Germany 's Stolzer Parkhaus , which has built automated garages in several countries overseas and in the United States for residents of a Washington , D.C ., apartment building.Another company had built the only other public robotic garage in the United States , the one with a checkered past.Built in 2002 across the river in Hoboken , N.J ., with 314 spaces for monthly rentals only , the garage dropped an unoccupied Cadillac Deville six floors in 2004 and a Jeep four stories the following year . The remarkable quality of Ligorio 's woodcuts makes this an extraordinarily beautiful book , as well as an historically important one . Arable land is intensively cultivated ; farmers use irrigation , terracing , and multiple cropping to coax rich crops from the overworked soil . Protests from neighbors and business owners scuttled several potential locations within city limits , leaving dozens of workers to gather informally on the edge of a residential neighborhood .