"It took years, and even after we did it, all the literature said that clematis are too delicate to use like that, so we shipped samples to designers," he said.

Intel said it was now shipping samples and would be in production in the fourth quarter, with the network-processor-based systems costing significantly less than custom-built systems typically used today.

Motorola Inc. said today that it had begun shipping samples of the Power PC microprocessor.

When strange deaths first began to appear in October, mystified local health officials shipped samples of tissue and blood from four children to the United States.

Ross is keeping price and performance pretty much under cover, though there is talk of them shipping samples to Sun in July.

Intel has begun shipping samples of an computer chip that imitates the circuitry of the human brain.

It said it would begin shipping samples of the chips this summer, with volume shipments in the fourth quarter.

And I can walk my clients over to check out the marble for their bathroom without having samples shipped in.

Phase-change memory: Numonyx is shipping samples of phase change memory (PCM) with commercialization later this year.

Sony and Sharp, which did not disclose any financial terms of the alliance, said they hoped to begin shipping samples by the fall of next year.