Indeed, the MIT team plans to use this chip to model neural structures such as vision in order to gain a deeper understanding of the brain.
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While touring the company's suite, we found two prototypes: a 10-inch tablet with NVIDIA's new Tegra 4 chip and a mid-range 7-inch model designed to take on the lower end of the market.
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"This is a really small microchip and on this chip we've got the intelligence which can actually model the neural signals responsible for appetite control, " Prof Toumazou told the BBC.
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The hybrid design of its Windows 8-based Vaio Duo 11 model adopts a concept that has long been promoted by chip designer Intel.
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The chip technology at the center of the company's stripped-down business model is 30 years old but has attracted fresh attention from investors that has sent the stock zig-zagging.
The model 70CT, with a port replicator, includes a 120-MHz Pentium MMX chip, a 1.5GB hard drive, and PC Card slots.
As a powerful, switch-hitting technologist and economist, he is able to peg the steady expansion of chip speeds and bandwidth to sudden business-inflection points -- those dramatic moments when a new business model dethrones the old.
Their working model is a shoebox-sized package of electronics and liquid-filled tubes, with a silicon chip at its core.
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The higher-end R505DS model packs a bit more wallop than its slightly slower sibling, the R505DL, with a faster chip and a 40-GB (as opposed to 30-GB) hard drive.
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