Right now, the researchers only have a small, 15-chip array on a robot arm.

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But there is another reason why Ms Polese stands a good chance of success: the blue-chip array of investors, advisers and corporate partners she has gathered behind her.

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And high-mobility-chip designers are facing an array of choices.

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Cells are lined up like ants and passed one-by-one through a tiny fluid channel one-fourth the width of a human hair, and a digital camera sensor chip captures images of the cells as they pass over an array of nanoscale holes.

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This arrangement makes the chip particularly suitable for image-processing, because each analogue element of the array can be made to correspond to a single pixel (one of the individual dots of which an image is composed).

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The Archer module consists of the UltraGig 6400 single chip transmitter with its intelligent beam-forming 60GHz RF transceiver, embedded antenna array, and WirelessHD 1.1 compliant network processor as well as all necessary external components on a single, flex- print cable module.

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It incorporates Creative's innovative patented Quartet digital signal processor (DSP) with four independent processor cores, and is the first processor to integrate an array of DSP cores with high-quality HD audio codecs of over 100dB on a single chip, giving it tremendous versatility for PC and embedded configurations.

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