Instead of a single network of channels running through a stacked chip of this sort, he suggests there should be two.
McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ), the blue chip of fast food, is also finally growing again.
By carefully controlling its properties, he could turn a single chip of semiconductor into resistors, capacitors and transistors connected in any way he liked.
In 1959 Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments each invented the integrated circuit, etching a transistor onto a two- dimensional chip of silicon.
Instead of building an even more complicated x86-compatible processor, the firm has created an entirely new chip of its own that is specifically designed to execute micro-ops quickly and efficiently.
"Best Buy is certainly the blue-chip of the consumer electronics big-box players, " says Stacey Widlitz, senior equity analyst at SG Cowen, The company recently expanded northward, opening eight new Best Buy stores early this year in Ontario, Canada.
Google knows this and knows it can embed a mobile banking chip of its own in many of its Android-sponsored handsets or it can ask Motorola, the company it has bought awaiting DOJ approval, to build its phones with the necessary separate Google Wallet microchip to enable fully secure mobile banking.
The idea is to embed a sliver of Java software in the chip brains of devices such as printers, digital cameras, mobile telephones and television set-top boxes.
"There is going to be a bit of a fight, " said Chip Dillon of Vertical Research.
Another Forbes cover story on genetic testing, by Herper and me in 2007, predicted an avalanche of genetic risk findings from DNA chip studies of common diseases.
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But there is another reason why Ms Polese stands a good chance of success: the blue-chip array of investors, advisers and corporate partners she has gathered behind her.
This involves shining light through a patterned mask and on to the surface of a chip, so as to change the chemical properties of the exposed parts of that chip.
Security expert, Andrew Goodwill, from the Third Man group, said this was the first evidence of a breach of the chip-and-pin system, with the encryption of the chip having been broken.
While Monday marks the official launch of the chip, none of the leading PC makers were ready to offer a Duron system yet.
Ironically, as one kind of chip enables the creation of huge volumes of data, other smart chips are needed to help increase the speed of the system and direct the flow of that data.
Data can be moved in and out of the chip at speeds of up to 10 megabits per second - far faster than is possible with other short-range radio systems such as Bluetooth or Radio Frequency ID tags.
At the core of the chip is what Intel calls a Rapid Execution Engine, an enhancement that allows the core of the processor to operate at twice the frequency than the rest of the chip, Yu said.
While processor speed often grabs the headlines, more important to the business success of chip manufacturers is the pricing of the chips and the ability to supply them.
Building a transistor that sticks out of its parental chip lets many of its component atoms be deployed more usefully particularly those that constitute the channel and the gate.
Cripps hopes to keep his hot streak alive with a chip shot of his own: Intel.
During the chip recession of 1997-98, profits in Motorola's chips segment fell fast and far.
Two years ago, Micron bought (with equity) the memory-chip operations of Texas Instruments, an American rival.
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He started a company called PrintingForLess.com in the small town of Livingston, a chip shot north of Yellowstone Park.
Intel's main rival, Advanced Micro Devices, launched a new chip design of its own earlier this year in a processor called Athlon.
During the chip recession of 1997-98, profits in Motorola's chips segment fell faster and further than in any of its five business segments.
As the dominant player in the industry it competes in all segments of chip production equipment, whereas most of its competitors specialize in individual areas.
The CEO of a British company in the FTSE index of 100 blue-chip companies tells of his experience at the most recent annual gathering of shareholders.
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