The good stuff--dryish, refined, compulsively drinkable--has nothing to do with cold duck or cough-medicine-y, five bucks a pop, small "c" "champagne": Different grapes, different process, a whole different mind-set.

FORBES: It's a beautiful thing for the holidays.

Davidson has catalogued some 300 individual chips bearing such images as Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian, and even a Russian message intended for Cold War-era Soviet operatives (who were attempting to reverse-engineer American technology).

ENGADGET: Silicon art on a microchip