The smaller chip size not only makes it cheaper to produce, but also more power-efficient.
By this stacked structure, large-scale circuits can now be mounted keeping small chip size.
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So the options with Nvidia are to either increase its chip size, or pack more powerful performance within the same chip size.
Conventional CMOS image sensors mount the pixel section and analog logic circuit on top of the same chip, which require numerous constraints when wishing to mount the large-scale circuits such as measures to counter the circuit scale and chip size, measures to suppress noise caused by the layout of the pixel and circuit sections, and optimizing the characteristics of pixels and circuit transistors.
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In consumer terms this means it will take everything you know as the Windows operating and put it inside a semiconductor chip the size of your fingernail.
Cyberonics' poker-chip-size device, surgically implanted in the chest, is approved for treating drug-resistant epilepsy and has moved into final-stage human tests for the far bigger market of drug-resistant depression.
Intel is counting on efficiency gains from squeezing transistors together so tightly that a billion fit on a fingernail-size chip.
He is working with Quake to create a thumb-size chip that can automatically catalog the genes and proteins inside a single stem cell.
Mr Kulakowski thinks Poland's biggest pre-entry bargaining chip is its size.
With a smaller image sensor, a lens designed for a 35mm camera captures only the inner part of the image, cropping off the edges that the sub-size sensor chip can't see.
With a chip on his shoulder the size of Mount Sinai, Zuk never misses an opportunity to poke fun.
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For example, the 20nm planes will determine the size of the chip, which will affect both its cost and its power-savings.
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The Environment Agency has previously conducted a test measuring the size of wood chip particles in the air, which came back well within the UK limit.
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Capellas has been showing off a sticker embedded with a so-called near-field communication chip a stamp-size gizmo that replaces a plastic card.
Putting different size features on different chip planes raises questions as to whether such a design can reap all the cost benefits of a fully 14nm part.
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The tablet phenomenon in the world today is bigger than the size of its memory chip, more awe-inspiring than the speed of its processor it is a wonder of our time, and in an ever more connected and computerized world, it may be the perfect tool for the industrious, creative, modern human.
As Broadcom's sixth generation combo chip, the BCM43341 offers OEMs unmatched size, power and cost advantages.
The chip - around a square centimetre in size - would run on very little power.
The sheer size and diversity of the chip market will allow more than one winner, but margins will be as thin as a silicon wafer.
Intel uses its manufacturing prowess to skinny the mighty x86 designs its customers build into the world's PCs into a chip that can power a gizmo the size of Apple's iPhone.
The small size of the LED light chip allows another advantage arising from the physics of optics: Engineers can employ collaterally small lenses making it possible to efficiently extract, direct and focus the lumens, achieving useful illumination with far fewer lumens--and far less energy--wasted.
Tests now under way at Motorola and elsewhere suggest that a one-size-fits-all memory chip is emerging: MRAM (magnetic random access memory).
Tests now under way at Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and elsewhere suggest that a one-size-fits-all memory chip is emerging: MRAM, for magnetic random access memory.
The expectation among industry watchers is for the Galaxy S IV to deliver incremental hardware improvements such as a slightly larger screen five inches versus the current 4.8-inch size as well as a faster chip and an improved camera.
That's the case with StickNFind - circular stickers the size of a few 10p pieces stuck together which contain a Bluetooth chip, temperature sensor and battery.
Hewlett-Packard has invented a wireless data chip that can store 100 pages of text or 15 seconds of video on a dot about half the size of a rice grain, with potentially dramatic applications in everything from health care to photography and marketing.
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