But it has a strong balance sheet and diversified product base: 60% of profits come from assembling integrated chips.
Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) is a big customer of IDT's integrated chips.
Researchers at the University of Bristol, for instance, are focusing their experiments on photons, containing them in small optical fibers that are built onto integrated chips with the help of a laser trap or ion trap.
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Its the difference between soldering transistor after transistor into a tangle of wires and printing the whole design, in hundreds of copies at a time, on integrated circuit chips.
Nvidia faces challenges in the graphics market from players like Intel and AMD , which are increasingly providing integrated graphics chips to PC makers that reduce the need for separate (discrete) graphics cards.
Through a partnership with Phone Halo, a company focused on mobile Bluetooth solutions, apparel in this new collection will feature integrated tracking chips to help high-end clientele locate lost or misplaced luxury items via a customized TrackR app.
The scientists behind the project believe that, eventually, the technology could make its way into commercial use and be integrated into silicon chips.
Alongside the development of silicon computer chips (integrated circuits to many of us) there was a companion revolution.
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Most electronics are made in the form of integrated circuits, which are tiny chips that contain transistors and other components etched onto silicon wafers.
We expect Qualcomm to continue to benefit from the diversified set of customers it has managed to woo, banking on its broad portfolio of Snapdragon chips that includes both integrated and standalone processors.
Intrinsic-ID's PUF technology is currently being integrated into future generations of SmartMX2 security chips.
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It took exactly two stops before we got to the first soccer-themed demonstration: the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits showed off the advantages of embedding chips in soccer balls, along with the shoes of the players.
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Glasslike silicon dioxide has been the insulator of choice in electronic chips since 1959, when Bob Noyce cobbled together the first silicon integrated circuit--wires and switches etched into silicon insulation.
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