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You can put the sensors next to the LED chips inside light bulbs.
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The company blamed the shortfall on lower sales of LED chips and components.
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But the risky time to invest in LED chips was 10 years ago when the technology was unproven and high-risk.
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The company designs and make the LED chips at its headquarters, but the final packaging of the bulbs will be done by Flextronics in Malaysia.
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One can envision these new players in the industry will assume leadership in specific roles within the value chain: Intel-like semiconductor companies building the LED chips, and equivalents of a PC motherboard manufacturer like ASUS packaging the chips into devices that will be used in a variety of end-use lighting applications.
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And any signs of a real recovery will come from directors of blue chips, which have consistently led the buying before a market rebound.
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In fact, a new design recently launched by LED chip maker Bridgelux features spaces around the chips that its customers can use to incorporate sensors.
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Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new "inexact" chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency.
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Meanwhile, competition between Affymetrix of Santa Clara, Calif. and upstart Illumina in San Diego led to rapid declines in the cost of SNP-measuring chips, glass slides on which tiny pieces of DNA are affixed like bits of Velcro.
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Chung Mong-koo's father, as boss of the country's biggest chaebol, led South Korea's growth in a wide range of industries from ships to computer chips.
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