Chip-based cards began in Europe 15 years ago "as a solution looking for a problem, " says Singapore's Wu.
Merchants will eventually also have to upgrade their devices, and banks will have to issue the chip-based cards.
One part of the campaign is a series of rolling deadlines, which extend through 2017, to further encourage the use of chip-based cards.
Poor, humble and decentralized to multiple vanishing points of obscurity, the chip-based PCs nevertheless would grow to be mighty in the next 25 years.
Handset manufacturers are also doing their bit by enabling NFC chip-based phones for NFC-enabled transactions that provide security of personal data with proper authentication.
In Moscow old-age pensioners carry a chip-based smart card from Visa that acts as a subway pass and id card and affords them discounts at pharmacies.
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.
One proposed use for chip-based cards is to control spending.
Jerome Svigals, a California-based card technology consultant, predicts that Asia will own at least a third of the more than one billion chip-based cards he believes will be in circulation by 2000.
Vance Rowland, president of AOneATM, says few of his company's 3, 000 ATMs will meet the deadline because there is still uncertainty about some of the software that is required to accept the chip-based transactions.
Sharp's chosen to focus on creating an affordable 1080p home projector, rolling out the single chip DLP-based XV-Z15000.
So we'll pass along these predictions from Shaw Wu, based on supposed deals between Apple and PortalPlayer (who currently supplies the chips for Apple's hard drive-based players, but stand to derive high revenues from new flash-based chip designs in Q3), that he expects a 2GB iPod mini with flash-based storage instead of an HDD by as early as the end of this year.
Based on wireless technology from Wisair, a leading provider of single-chip based Wireless USB solutions, the Easy Dock consists of a USB dongle that connects to your laptop and a receiver that connects to your monitor, mouse, keyboard, and speakers.
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Considering the Nokia N900 runs Flash 9 extremely well on a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8-based TI OMAP 3 processor (and the Palm Pre, which uses the same chip, will be able to run Flash 10.1 when webOS 1.4 comes out) we don't see any reason other than politics that the iPad can't do it on that fancy new 1GHz dual-core Cortex A9-based A4 chip.
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The UK-based chip company licenses its designs for low-power application processors to Samsung, Qualcomm, Apple, Texas Instruments, and a pack of others.
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Ditching Intel silicon could also mean a move away from x86, as Apple has been heavily invested in its own ARM-based chip designs in recent years.
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Intel is keeping up a particularly fast pace in its system-on-a-chip (SoC) business, based on its low-power Atom core.
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This is a quad-core x86 based system on a chip, targeted at ultra-thin and small form factor PCs.
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Manufacturers are sampling that chip now, and Crusoe-based notebooks should arrive in the second half of the year, Ditzel says.
UK-based computer chip designer Imagination Technologies is buying US central processing unit (CPU) architect Mips's business operations and some of its patents.
One of the reasons that Fujitsu says it has an edge here is because it is developing a WiMax system-on-a-chip that will be based on silicon.
The San Diego-based communications chip vendor is shifting production of the wireless chips it sells to a new manufacturing technology that will allow it to build parts with features as small as 28 nanometers across.
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However, the trade-off is that at present each chip is a less powerful processor than x86-based products on the market.
Intel (INTC) : Like Oracle, this California-based computer-chip power has morphed from a flashy tech sector darling to a steady, reliable performer.
Measuring at 6.93mm thick (instead of the rumored 6.13mm), we're surprised that Oppo didn't set this to be the follow-up to the Finder: sure, it's 0.28mm thicker, but it also aces the latter with a 4.7-inch 720p in-cell display, a 1.2GHz quad-core chip with 1GB RAM (likely MediaTek's Cortex-A7-based MT6589 SoC), Android 4.2 and a sorely missed 3.5mm headphone jack -- so no micro-USB adapter required.
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The ZLR-2070S is an all-in-one, multi-service gateway that leverages compact, system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology to deliver cost-effective, non-FPGA-based LTE connectivity.
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While the low-voltage Core i5 chip (there's a Core i3 option), 1080p IPS-based screen, 5-megapixel rear camera and front 1.3-megapixel shooter don't scream for attention by themselves among higher-end Windows 8 slates, there's an optical trackpoint and mouse buttons that make themselves genuinely handy in the non-Metro desktop.
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Since Intel IPT is embedded at chip-level, unlike hardware or phone-based tokens, it can enable more secure, yet user-friendly cloud access protection.
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Surface with Windows RT - to give the device its full name - runs on a chip made by Nvidia, based on the designs of British company Arm Holdings.
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Microsoft is pushing Talisman, another tile-based architecture, for which Fujitsu will launch the first chip later this year.
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