It's about as far from the ordered, repeatable world of chip-manufacturing as you can get.
Anti-fraud measures, principally chip-and-pin, are showing success in other areas once regarded as a big problem.
The debate over chip-enabled cards has been a chicken-and-egg issue in the U.S. for years.
This year, the most chip-hungry sectors - computers and mobile phones - remain in the doldrums.
One is whether limits will be placed on value that can be held on chip-bearing cards.
But new chip-making technologies are emerging that should make them cheaper (see article).
Now, a chip-packager and tester called Amkor plans to go ahead with its long-planned listing.
There are some major changes coming to chip-making land over the next few years.
SEIPI, the Philippines' electronics-industry association, the country retains a critical mass in the chip-making business.
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The chip - around a square centimetre in size - would run on very little power.
In the Birmingham raid, police discovered chip-and-pin terminals, card account numbers, a card writer and computer software.
And Salford then levelled after a chip-and-chase by star scrum-half Holdsworth sparked the move for Sibbit's try.
Aurelien Rougerie's chip-and-chase was fielded by Felipe Contepomi before Corleto set off on a magnificent 50-yard winding run.
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.
Management has cut costs, jettisoned underperforming products, and spun off a chip-fabrication business that was draining needed capital.
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In San Francisco, by contrast, rival chip-makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices were both claiming the gold Tuesday.
But several other chip-making techniques will need to be modified if his radical new approach is to succeed.
What is more, according to Dr Hergenrother, all of this is possible using current chip-making equipment and processes.
This little miracle involves using tiny chip-mounted diffraction gratings and laser light passed over them via a scanning mirror.
These are rough times to be in the business of selling chip-making gear.
Proving more secure, chip-and-pin cards are embedded with microchips and require cardholders to input a personal identification number rather than signing receipts.
Zeiss is running out of space for its chip-technology business, and is building a new DM200m factory at Oberkochen.
Worldwide, independent chip-packaging revenues are expected to grow by about 16% a year.
Invariably it was governments, rather than markets, that kick-started the move into chip-making.
Mr Torvalds himself now works for Transmeta, a chip-design firm in Silicon Valley.
Stocks in the chip-making sector recovered slightly from the panic earlier in the week over their closed plants in Japan.
Chip-design software company Synopsys this afternoon posted better-than-expected financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended January 31.
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Dorsey was probably wise to do that because the technical requirements for accepting payment from a chip-card are very different.
Security concerns have led many places in Europe to accept only chip-and-pin credit cards, which causes trouble for travellers with magnetic-stripe cards.
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