Once stand-alone devices are feasible, Quake hopes to combine them into a single chip.

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"We're the only company now in the industry that has intellectual property in both of those main technologies, " Prairie said, pointing to the company's recently launched mobile system and said that eventually, the company plans on integrating the technologies into a single chip.

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Mr Joy says that his new design, which turns a single chip into a parallel-processing system, can handle huge amounts of video and audio data at speeds that would overwhelm the usual Intel chip.

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By carefully controlling its properties, he could turn a single chip of semiconductor into resistors, capacitors and transistors connected in any way he liked.

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Azul does them all better, boasting 24 cores per chip, with up to 16 chips packed into a single server.

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