According to other estimates, embedded chips will account for about 30% of the total millennium-bug cost.
Power distribution networks are the chief concern because embedded chips have not been thoroughly tested, he indicated.
Businesses throughout the small business development program learned about embedded chips, tested for Y2K problems, and established contingency plans.
Guests will experience everything from retrieving assignments from interactive kiosks to embedded chips in their event badges, the company said.
Freescale makes embedded chips that go into a range of applications such as automotive electronics, wireless transmission devices and consumer appliances.
Wireless chips embedded into every device could transform an ordinary home into a distributed computing system.
He's thinking of everything from locator tags for pets and packages, to chips embedded in portable products like cameras and computers.
It has also embedded cards with chips for use at toll plazas.
Engineers working in the field of pervasive computing are aiming to create smart fabrics, embedded with computer chips and sensors that will enhance and possibly even save our lives.
Next, we might have RFID chips embedded in shopping carts, shelves and her loyalty card that would identify the path she took through the store, what items she inspected but did not buy and so forth.
But now, for the first time ever in the wireless ecosystem, a standard platform is emerging: At least a dozen handset makers have brought to market more than 90 different smartphones that run Android, and more than three quarters of those handsets have Qualcomm chips embedded in them, according to a new study by consultancy PRTM.
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U.S. and Asian demand, he says, was broad-based, with particularly solid growth for analog chips, embedded controllers and programmable logic devices.
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It also helps Intel push its chips into smaller, battery powered devices and embedded systems, as Intel begins challenging companies manufacturing chips based on power-efficient ARM designs.
When Robert Poor looks at the world, he sees 50 billion embedded microcontrollers, the workhorse chips inside cars, traffic lights and air conditioners, doing their jobs in splendid isolation.
The company still has a bright future developing chips for the embedded market and storage devices, but they'll probably never again have the opportunity to become an instantly-recognized name like Intel, AMD, or IBM.
Workers there are checking every piece of equipment to see which have embedded, data-dependent computer chips.
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Cintas executives say they are waiting for the next generation of RFID chips, with customer information embedded in garments, to further automate the process.
The new SDK can use H.264 hardware encoding to supplement the relatively slow ARM chips that will be running Linux in an embedded manner -- like the Panasonic TV, for instance, which was developed using an early version of SkypeKit.
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Because the chips were so small and easy to make, they could be embedded in documents as they were printed, stuck to any surface or made into a book of self-adhesive dots, he added.
Power-hungry parts see even more of a boost: they can carry Iris Pro graphics with embedded DRAM, which should double the 3D speed on H-series mobile chips (47-55W of typical power) and triple it for the R-series (around 65-84W) on the desktop.
For the quarter, ARM said 1.1 billion ARM processor-based chips were shipped for mobile devices and tablets, and another 800 million for consumer and embedded devices.
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