"This has been scanned and there's no chip in it and so it's obviously come through the black market, " he said.
No blue chip, in other words, but hardly stuck in the garage.
But pulling AMD-based PCs off Dell's virtual shelf is clearly a blow to the No. 2 chip maker.
Second, there is no bellwether blue chip today that can single-handedly boost the standing of the United States as in days past.
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It is home to the world's No. 2 and No. 3 chip-packaging and chip-testing companies, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision (SPIL) .
The advocates of using the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip have no leverage.
The chip, which requires no power, works like this: Up to four megabits of data are put into the chip by touching the dot with an encased coil about the width of a pencil eraser.
Dean McCarron, an industry analyst at Mercury Research, points out that this is already happening to some extent, since wires can cross over one another on a chip, though no actual transistors are stacked on top of each other.
Obsession with talent is no longer confined to blue-chip companies such as Goldman Sachs and General Electric.
The revival of chip music is by no means limited to the United States, Matthew Carl Applegate is a chiptune artist in the UK who works under the name Pixelh8.
All that will weigh heavily on the bourse, and, current bargains aside, no one expects the blue-chip Hang Seng Index to recover its August record closing high of 16, 673 any time soon.
What we didn't know is that the folks at OUYA are working directly with a team of folks at NVIDIA on the project, and that NVIDIA is helping the company to max out its Tegra 3 processor for use on a console rather than a mobile (no battery dependency means the little chip can go much further than usual).
There are "free to air" services, which, like basic TV channels, can be picked up by any device with the right chip or receiver--no service provider necessary.
Chip maker Broadcom has unveiled no fewer than three new mobile-themed hunks of silicon this week in preparation for MWC in just a few days' time.
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But, Chip, there's no doubt that we're not going to get all the way that we need to unless or until we get two parties working together as the American people envision their government working.
Plunging memory-chip prices mean that Samsung can no longer rely on its cash cow, however.
Take another South Korean memory chip maker, Hyundai Electronics (No. 260).
And, of course, it has to be bigger: it has a Core i5 processor, two fans and a 42.5Wh battery, whereas the RT has a Tegra 3 chip, a 31Wh battery and no fans.
Maxim (MXIM): The chip maker said there has been no damage to its partner facility, Seiko Epson, from the earthquake, but that a power outage has affected production at the facility, in Sakata, Japan.
The multi-core war may have begun, but the battle will be fought with software, although that's not to say that the hardware side has already been won: apparently the test chip is much larger than equivalent chips -- 275 mm squared, versus a typical Core 2 Duo's 143 mm squared -- and Intel currently has no way to hook up memory to the chip.
In the U.S., the soft-drink and chip markets, while enormous, are no longer growing.
The stars of the stockmarket are no longer mining companies and manufacturers but blue-chip utilities and financial firms.
The Hewlett-Packard scientist behind the project, Phil Kuekes, said his next step would be to build a 16-bit memory chip in a tiny square--no more than 100 billionths of a meter inside.
No battery is needed because devices reading data from the chip will provide power by induction.
"I think there's no question that there is no Compaq anymore, and Compaq has issues with the chip, HP has issues with the platform, " says Kovac.
No wonder that equities, even those of blue-chip companies with solid balance sheets and pretty good business prospects, are taking a hit amid this wave of uncertainty.
But recently revised forecasts from Nokia and Samsung, the world's No. 1 and No. 2 handset makers, as well as mobile chip-set manufacturer Qualcomm, augur trouble in 2009.
No doubt, the credit has always been a political bargaining chip, allowing more encompassing energy proposals to pass.
As in Europe, where no transaction can happen without a PIN code and a smart (chip) card.
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