In computer chips, Samsung Electronics is comfortably ahead of China for now.
At one point, the nearby Climax mine produced close to 75 percent of the world's molybdenum, which is used as a hardening agent for steel in cars, as well as in computer chips and monitors.
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new "inexact" chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency.
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The computer maker on Wednesday is discussing its advances in making optical-communications components from silicon, the mainstay material used in conventional computer chips.
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara plan to break that silence with genetically engineered proteins that can make silicon dioxide or titanium dioxide structures like those used in the computer chips and solar cells that we hold dear.
Some carriers, such as Verizon, install computer chips in their phones that allow callers to be located.
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Dr. Lee is a leader in the field of computer chips for wireless technologies such as mobile phones, short-range wireless devices, and global positioning systems (GPS).
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Some carriers, such as Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ), install computer chips in their phones that allow callers to be located.
Although it doesn't quite have the wow factor of Cornell's invisibility project, the thermal research may prove to be more practical because it also can be used to manage heat and improve cooling in components such as computer chips.
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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.
Samsung makes microchips that are used in some Apple products as well as memory chips used in the MacBook Pro computer line.
The rest of the Asia-Pacific region managed a 1.3% expansion, and in Europe - where the use of chips in consumer electronics and cars outweighs computer use - sales were up 5.8%.
Ultimately, the hope is that picosat components can be manufactured in much the same way as computer chips, allowing picosats to be mass-produced like mobile phones.
His technical prowess -- while at Hewlett-Packard he designed seven computer chips and programmed in nine languages -- gives him an eye for startups with jaw- dropping innovations.
Would the United States lose its competitive edge in this technological field and dominant world market share as it has in so many others, from computer chips to VCRs?
Analysts say that Chinese scientists have benefited from training at top computer centers in the U.S. and Europe and the availability of computer chips and other parts from abroad, as well as consistent Chinese government funding and support.
Intel has a history of being a bellwether for the computer industry in particular, since its chips are used in 80% of all the PCs made globally, and for technology in general since its chips are used in so many other areas of technology.
Chung Mong-koo's father, as boss of the country's biggest chaebol, led South Korea's growth in a wide range of industries from ships to computer chips.
But the real goal is to have nanoscale transistors ready when silicon chips can no longer deliver annual increases in computer speed.
Computer chips and mobile phones were a favourite in 2004, he said.
The composites are also likely to see applications in enhancing the storage capacity of CDs and DVDs and in increasing the number of circuits that can fit on computer chips.
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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Among the startling facts that Lehrbaum relates in his presentation is that less than 20 percent of the computer chips manufactured each year go into computers.
"We are dissipating huge amounts of power in chips right now, " said Professor Stan Williams of computer firm Hewlett Packard.
For example, in your car there are between 50 and 100 computer systems filled with CPU chips that are all running software every time you start your car.
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President Obama referenced computer chips and the Internet as having been enabled by government investment in basic research.
But in the hyper-competitive microprocessor market, where computer-makers relentlessly demand cheaper chips with ever-higher performance, being a lot smaller puts AMD at a distinct disadvantage.
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