One is whether limits will be placed on value that can be held on chip-bearing cards.
The lower resolution also requires less memory for graphical work, meaning that the iPad mini can carry on using the older A5 system on chip.
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Two things: the open architecture of the PC, and the foundry business, which allows companies focused on chip design to outsource the production of their chips.
Dhanda asserts that the trends in global industrial production, U.S. durable goods orders and the global ISM new order index all argue for a more cautious stance on chip stocks.
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The surly native of Vicenza, Italy signed up his friend Mead, who has helped start 20 companies, written an industry bible on chip architecture and run a famous lab at Caltech.
At an International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) event, AMD demonstrated working silicon of its first true system on chip (SoC) APUs, codenamed "Temash" and "Kabini, " which will be the industry's first quad-core x86 SoCs.
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Mr. Pflaum listened in to conference calls during which one of the contacts, a California tech-company contractor named Winifred Jiau, allegedly gave Mr. Barai and Mr. Freeman information on chip maker Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
The new chip-making technology may allow Moore's Law--that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months--to continue on its trajectory even when silicon transistors cannot be made any smaller.
Where they differ relates to what will be included on the chip--multiple technologies on multiple bands that can be used on virtually 100% of today's commercial networks, or a single technology for a limited number of networks.
Surface with Windows RT - to give the device its full name - runs on a chip made by Nvidia, based on the designs of British company Arm Holdings.
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In perhaps the most noteworthy call this morning, Goldman Sachs analyst James Covello turned cautious on the chip and chip equipment stocks, reducing his rating on the group to Neutral from Atractive, noting that semi shares have outperformed the market significantly since 2008.
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.
Because its flagship Snapdragon chip is currently the only mobile processor that integrates LTE functionality on the chip.
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Thus, when a genetic algorithm runs on the chip, the effectiveness of each configuration can be measured directly on the circuit rather than in some costly simulation.
Light particles blast the photosensitive material on a silicon wafer to create the features on a chip, just as in photography, photons transform silver molecules on photographic film into visible images.
When the K7's on-chip 128KB L1 cache becomes too small, the K7 will call on the 200-MHz EV6 bus developed for Digital's Alpha processors.
The new low power system-on-chip (SoC) enables high definition (HD) video to be simultaneously watched on smartphones, tablets and other smart devices, in real time, while also shared with consumer devices such as a Smart TV.
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The kit streamlines design of innovative mobile accessories using the flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture.
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"We're not pasty guys in white lab coats droning on about chip specs, " he says.
They can look toward new technologies, such as on-chip water-cooled systems, evaporation techniques, and hot-water reuse.
Although it seems similar, an APU is not exactly a system on a chip (SoC).
In Europe, you'll be done in 2.5 years--barely enough time to work on your chip shot.
These speeds are possible because the optical components on same chip as the processors.
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With a complete human genome, including polymorphisms, on a chip, that would not be too hard.
Focus on blue chip large-cap growth stocks in business areas that are easy to understand.
Microsoft is porting a next iteration of Windows to a System on a Chip (SOC).
This is a quad-core x86 based system on a chip, targeted at ultra-thin and small form factor PCs.
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Also extraordinary is that the dividend yields on blue chip stocks remains in the 4% to 5% range.
"We think it's a complete computer on a chip, " says Mike Rayfield, general manager of Nvidia's mobile business.
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