These speeds are possible because the optical components on same chip as the processors.
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Splitting the operation of the chip into hardware and software components has other advantages.
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.
There continues to be rapid growth of white-box or utility and basic tablets as well, given the low costs of production attained using components from Chinese chip producers Allwinner and Rockchip.
Meanwhile mixed signal devices proliferate with both analog and digital components on a single chip.
Scientists are aiming to combine the odour sensors and the signal processing components onto one silicon chip.
All the components to make the chip, including modem, antenna, microprocessor and memory, can be fabricated as a single unit helping to keep unit costs low.
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.
Professor Kumar said that it would become harder and harder for chip makers to ensure instructions are executed flawlessly as components shrink.
For instance, chip designers, deprived of the luxury of ever-shrinking components, will start to use what they have more efficiently.
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.
Instead of being fixed, a string of bits specifies the chip's design by telling it what linkages to forge between its various components (in this case, groups of transistors known as logic cells).
As the internal components came to light, the markets automatically picked winners and losers in the chip world.
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With some observers worried that Apple could be supply constrained due to shortages of displays or perhaps other components, some investors today have apparently decided to unravel their Apple iPhone 5 chip supplier bets.
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Top candidates include its memory chip business, its Itanium server chips and several smaller businesses based around other categories of computer components for functions like storage and networking.
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