These speeds are possible because the optical components on same chip as the processors.

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Lewis brought in two programmers from his old chip company and imposed a design process akin to one for building a chip, focusing on small components to deliver their complex product.

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Meanwhile mixed signal devices proliferate with both analog and digital components on a single chip.

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The computer industry constantly strives to pack more, and therefore smaller, components on to each chip, but the smaller a capacitor gets, the harder it is to store enough charge on it.

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Ruiz would rather have Motorola expand its business of developing whole systems on a chip, where margins are 40% to 50%, double those of components.

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