"We think it's a complete computer on a chip, " says Mike Rayfield, general manager of Nvidia's mobile business.
He says that with so many devices around, the value of having a powerful computer on a single chip has diminished.
The lab is also working on a house in which every item is tagged with a radio chip, allowing a computer to tally whether an occupant has moved a spoon or turned on the television.
More than two full generations of Moore's law (which says that the number of transistors squeezed on to a computer chip doubles every 18 months) have passed since the tech bubble burst, as have more than three generations of fibre-optics communications technology.
Anderson would consider putting a computer chip in the ball and a laser on the goal line to replace the time-consuming debates and video reviews of scoring.
At the heart of the personal genome machine is a silicon chip with 21 million transistors on it--the equivalent of a desktop computer circa 1995.
Mr. Robinson also says he executed trades for himself and Mr. Kluger last summer on a tip that chip giant Intel Corp. was buying computer-antivirus company McAfee Inc.
Then on Wednesday, ASML Holding, a key European supplier to computer chip makers, said it swung to a profit in the second quarter after a loss in the year-ago period thanks to a sharp rebound in demand.
An on-board computer gets the machine's position from satellites and reads a digital blueprint from a chip.
Every doctor visit, diagnosis, lab test, prescription will be embedded in that chip, not on a server, but the customer can download the information on a computer.
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The chip relied on a form of memory that would have made putting the processor in a computer too expensive to compete on price with older Pentiums.
The computer industry constantly strives to pack more, and therefore smaller, components on to each chip, but the smaller a capacitor gets, the harder it is to store enough charge on it.
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