It then takes advantage of a feature built into modern computer chips, called Connected Standby.
Workers there are checking every piece of equipment to see which have embedded, data-dependent computer chips.
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Such molecular motors, Yurke says, could be used as a way of manufacturing faster computer chips.
Both of these surfaces would be created by photolithography, the process used to make computer chips.
The home projects class, elegance--and a time before computer chips and fiber-optic cables ruled the local land.
Some carriers, such as Verizon, install computer chips in their phones that allow callers to be located.
Ordinary, not-marching-in-step atomic beams are already used in precision clocks, and to etch some high-performance computer chips.
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Wire-bonders are devices essential to the efficient manufacture of high quality computer chips and other microelectronic devices.
Alongside the development of silicon computer chips (integrated circuits to many of us) there was a companion revolution.
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President Obama referenced computer chips and the Internet as having been enabled by government investment in basic research.
They include mobile phones, MP3 players, computer chips, hard drives, handheld computers, games consoles and satellite navigation equipment.
It costs Intel, the industry giant, several billion dollars to build a foundry to make new-generation computer chips.
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Microelectronics manufacturing capabilities including the latest state-of-the-art equipment needed to build custom computer chips and subminiature microwave devices.
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Dr Swartzlander's prototype phase mask was made using the sort of etching techniques employed to fabricate computer chips.
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Widespread cost cutting and steady demand for computer chips enabled it to improve its performance, the company said.
Although Yurke's tweezers are just a proof-of-principle, similar molecular motors might be used to assemble very tiny computer chips.
The world's largest maker of computer chips, Intel, has cut its three-month sales forecast and withdrawn its full-year predictions.
Dr Molfino plans to employ the technology used to etch computer chips to create similar surfaces on her graspers.
Last year, the corporation invested further in producing components for mobile phones, moving away from the powerful D-RAM computer chips.
The HMRC said the fraud saw the group import mobile phones and computer chips from Europe, VAT free, which is legal.
Computer chips and mobile phones were a favourite in 2004, he said.
But the company has ended its unwise foray into personal computer chips.
In computer chips, Samsung Electronics is comfortably ahead of China for now.
Polysilicon is an essential ingredient used in the manufacture of computer chips.
The arrangement, which expires on July 31, requires that Japanese companies strive to purchase a growing percentage of their computer chips from abroad.
The computer maker on Wednesday is discussing its advances in making optical-communications components from silicon, the mainstay material used in conventional computer chips.
However, China's future export growth is likely to come not from existing industries but from higher-value products, such as computer chips and cars.
He was conducting research on nanosensors, which are primarily used for medical treatments or to build other nanoproducts, such as computer chips, she said.
Just to give a few examples from my own direct business knowledge: gold plating on computer chips and connectors used to be about 200 nanometres.
As part of the deal, banks will also be able to securely load their customers' card account information into computer chips located in the handsets.
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