The internet has its own intervention for those who are addicted to the internet – that makes up a lot of people. This addiction is larger than any, including substance abuse, but will anyone every go to such a place? I think it’s a crazy idea and money we don’t need to spend.

Fall city, WA near Redmond, which is home to many major computer companies is the new home of the first ever Internet Addiction Center.

If you feel that you are neglecting more important things because of the internet, you might need their 45-day detox program. The program is very expensive ($17,000), including a $200 application fee. Your insurance company probably won’t pay for this treatment, in fact they would have a chuckle or two.

I am addicted, but I am not spending that kind of cash for someone to isolate me in a room with no computer for X amount of days. I just find this whole idea amusing and I am sure many of you will as well.

What’s next, their own reality show?

If you really need this Internet Addiction Recovery Program than click here.

Intel announced on Monday its details of a new line of graphics processors that would take on market leaders Nvidia and the ATI division of Advanced Micro Devices.

Intel will present the facts about the all new chip design, code-named Larrabee, Aug. 12 at the SIGGRAPH industry conference in Los Angeles. Intel has made the paper available online through the Association of Computing Machinery’s portal.

The first Larrabee chips will be add-on graphics accelerators in PCs used mostly by gamers. The chips called graphics processing units, or GPUs, are expected at the end of 2009 or early 2010. Intel plans to adapt Larrabee to more workloads, such as video processing, medical imaging, scientific research, oil and gas exploration, and other high-performance computing tasks.

In addition, Larrabee includes a major new hardware coherent cache design enabling the many-core architecture. The architecture and instructions have been designed to deliver performance, energy efficiency and general purpose programmability to meet the demands of visual computing and other workloads that are inherently parallel in nature.

The first Larrabee chips will have more than a dozen cores on a single silicon chip. Intel, however, says it eventually will build hundreds of processing units on a chip. In that area, however, Intel is way behind Nvidia and AMD in the multibillion-dollar graphics market. Nvidia is shipping GPUs with more than 200 cores today, and AMD is planning a high-end graphics chip this year with more than 500 cores.

Let the gaming begin with the new Larrabee chips!