Researchers ponder rent-a-chip computing

As powerful as computer chips have become, a lot of folks don't come anywhere near the boundaries of their computers' capacity reading e-mail, watching YouTube videos, playing "World of Warcraft" and the like.

Suppose you could buy only as much computing power as you need, for the time being, or even at the moment, kind of like you buy electricity.

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