To understand the ascent of mobile, think about this: Qualcomm, the wireless chip maker, just surpassed the market value of Intel, the titanic microchip company of the computer era.

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Microchip makers and personal-computer manufacturers are already slogging it out with rivals, and casualties are mounting.

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The type of operating system, the make of microchip, the choice of programming language, the brand of computer all these are of no consequence to his argument, because it applies equally to all computers.

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In the same way that spreadsheets can instantaneously perform complex sales projections, biomedical researchers in the future will pump in the proteins and other chemicals they want to test into a microchip, and the result will be quickly spit out on a computer display.

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The NOR type needs to be ultrafast because it is directly connected to the central processing unit of a computer and stores its basic input-output system (the operating system used by the microchip that lies beneath user-interface operating systems, such as Windows).

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