The chip itself uses a technology called RFID to send information back and forth.
There have also been stories around that Apple is looking to either bring inhouse the chip fabrication itself, or to look for another fab house to bake them.
But the boom lasted only till the mid-1980s, when Silicon Valley's chip industry found itself outclassed by Japanese competitors.
Some phones currently house that chip in the charger itself or the phone's docking station.
Governments everywhere will try, by statute, to insert themselves electronically into cyber transactions (i.e. instant tax collection) or into the infrastructure itself (chip trapdoors).
Bigger wafers mean more chips per wafer, and since a fair portion of the cost of a chip is in the process itself (the upfront development cost is another major piece), rather than the wafers, bigger wafers mean cheaper chips.
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With the several megabits of needed data stored momentarily on the PowerVR itself, the chip runs at 3 million polygons a second -- three times as fast as the latest arcade games, and 15 times the speed of Sony's PlayStation.
As the desktop computer industry continues to evaporate as consumers turn to slimmer, lighter, wireless devices such as smartphones and tablets, graphics chip specialist Nvidia continues to remake itself.
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Moneta itself gauges its performance to the return on the blue-chip index.
"Honestly, the race itself pales in comparison to the injuries sustained by the fans, " said Chip Ganassi, the team owner who has Larson in his driver development program.
"Honestly, the race itself pales in comparison to the injuries sustained by the fans, " said Chip Ganassi, the team owner who has Mr. Larson in his driver development program.
That in itself is progress, though some will certainly complain that the Motorola-made G4 chip is still falling short of the one-gigahertz mark.
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