Silicon Valley venture capitalists are the latest to succumb to this draw, anteing up not with chips but with so-called bridge loans.
"When people stop going to a bodega to buy a soda, they're not going to buy the chips, they're not going to buy the beer, because they're not going to make two stops, " he said.
Not that my chips preference is all that important.
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But its graphics components are specially made graphics chips from Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ), not the usual graphics chips you'll find in a PC.
Turns out the key to success in chips was not cheaper production but developing advanced architecture.
Not a problem in chips of yore, but very much a problem these days.
Both ARM and Imagination license their designs to others but do not make their own chips.
Power distribution networks are the chief concern because embedded chips have not been thoroughly tested, he indicated.
Apple's sales boom has not directly benefitted Intel, which is not involved in producing chips for Apple's products.
They say that most such chips track not the date, but rather the time elapsed since an event.
Or is it because iOS and Android run on ARM chips, not Intel?
OK, not quite, the aim is not to fry the chips (sorry, English pun there) but to cool them.
Real promise lay in making cheap custom chips, not a better microprocessor.
Your potato chips are not being force fed to kindergarten children.
But Silicon Valley does not live just on chips and software.
Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh says he wrote about having cancer to share his "grief so someone else can feel they are not alone when the chips are down".
Of course the chips are not all in yet.
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What volunteers had failed to realize was that the comparisons they were making when the chips were in their heads were not the comparisons they would make when the chips were in their mouths.
"It needs to explain and address anomalies which mean that, for example, you can have a free bag with a carton of chips but not if it comes with a burger in a box, " said Bob Gordon, head of environment.
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For a time, Hanwell Snr made his own reluctance to sit appear quite natural, busying himself with the hot oil and dismissing certain chips as not fit to be thrown in the fryer if his only son was to eat them.
Based on that data point, I decided not to buy the potato chips they were selling.
Using Cell chips instead would not, therefore, be a big stretch.
In the early 1980s, the rising cost of fabs created a new kind of company that designed chips but did not want to be in the business of running multi-billion-dollar fabs themselves.
Statistics for the 1st section suggest that blue chips valuations are still not stretched.
But shipping chips across China is not so different from shipping them across the South China Sea.
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He thinks the first RIMM phones based on QNX operating system will use chips from Qualcomm, not Marvell.
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