The promise of reconfigurable logic is that it should allow the logic and memory resources in a chip to be used more efficiently, especially in applications that need massive computing power.

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Samsung on Friday is expected to reveal an expansion plan that for the first time spends more money on logic chips than memory chips.

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Merging magnets with semiconductors would allow a chip to combine a computer's memory and logic functions.

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Most electronic systems include a processor, memory, logic and inputs and outputs.

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E5, and it combines a microprocessor with 3, 200 reconfigurable logic cells, a chunk of memory, and a number of other components.

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The most menacing of these is that posed by archrival Samsung, whose windfall profits from sales of memory chips and huge internal demand for advanced logic chips for Samsung-brand electronics products like smart phones give it sizeable advantages in the form of both financial firepower and in-house vertical integration.

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It needs flexible logic circuitry (to do the actual computing), flexible memory or storage, a flexible power source, and a flexible display.

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The company expects sales to chip foundries to be down more than 50% sequentially in the October quarter, with a 35%-40% pullback from memory customers, and a better than 20% drop in demand from logic customers.

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Applied CFO George Davis told me last week that the company sees sales to chip foundries down more than 50% sequentially in the October quarter, with a 35%-40% pullback from memory customers, and a better than 20% drop in demand from logic customers.

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