Many months before details of Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox began trickling out, a high-security courier package arrived at the headquarters of Cimtek Inc. in Burlington, Ont. Wrapped inside was one of the first-made, sleek game consoles, powerful enough to perform one trillion calculations a second. The machine was whisked into a secure zone of the building, where Cimtek employees had signed non-disclosure agreements and passed criminal background checks.
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