Each DVD player would contain a small chip costing only a few extra cents that would follow the recipe faithfully.
The power needed to run such a small chip is so low that it could be done off stray light in a room, or even body heat.
Sega's new accelerator will be the PowerVR, designed by VideoLogic, a small British chip design studio, and produced by Japan's NEC Corp.
After months of e-mails, calls and in-person meetings, Van Tassell convinced Illumina that it was worth marketing a small gene chip that could keep track of 38, 000 tiny genetic differences in cows that his USDA researchers had discovered.
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.
If built cleverly, they permit the chip designer to pack more computing power into a small space without causing the chip to misfire.
Right now, the researchers only have a small, 15-chip array on a robot arm.
He started a company called PrintingForLess.com in the small town of Livingston, a chip shot north of Yellowstone Park.
The company said that overall inventories of semiconductors were small, a good sign for chip makers.
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Before we get ahead of ourselves on expecting instant file transfers at short distances, there's the small matter of getting a chip that can use all that bandwidth.
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"This is a really small microchip and on this chip we've got the intelligence which can actually model the neural signals responsible for appetite control, " Prof Toumazou told the BBC.
This is a quad-core x86 based system on a chip, targeted at ultra-thin and small form factor PCs.
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As a result of being so small the modem chip will also be more energy efficient and cheaper to produce.
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One small company has already built a Speakjet chip into a synthesizer module, which lets it interface with big modular synths for major weirdness.
An example is virt-x, a small electronic exchange for European blue-chip shares which offers clearing and settlement alternatives: nearly all the liquidity has migrated to just one of them.
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The idea of analysing or synthesising small quantities of chemicals in a chip-sized apparatus is not new, but labs on chips have conventionally relied on systems of tiny pipes etched into them to move the chemicals around.
Accommodating a 35mm sensor, the same chip that ships in Sony's a99 DSLR, in such a small housing meant going with a fixed 35mm lens.
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He also has a small stake in the New Jersey Nets and collects paychecks from blue-chip endorsement deals with Hewlett Packard, General Motors and Budweiser.
Payments firm Paypal has launched a chip-and-pin machine designed to offer new sales methods to UK small businesses that have previously relied on cash or cheques.
With new chip-based software, Nortel enables a cheaper semiconductor device to perform the function of a small Internet router, supplanting costly hardware of the sort Cisco sells.
Though the artificial Golgi Dr Linhardt and his team have designed is much bigger than a cell, it is still small by the standards of human engineering, being built on what is known as a digital-fluidics chip.
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