Continuously variable motors, controlled by very smart chips, would save energy, and maybe your nerves, too.
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Just as with your computer, the new TVs and phones will be all-digital and have Internet addresses. n Smart chips in everyday things will spread even faster.
Ironically, as one kind of chip enables the creation of huge volumes of data, other smart chips are needed to help increase the speed of the system and direct the flow of that data.
What it amounts to is a series of 'smart' chips inserted into biocompatible devices and strung together.
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Contactless payments take place with credit cards or smart phones that have chips implanted with radio frequency identification, commonly referred to as RFID.
Over the past several years, Nvidia has broadened its focus from graphics processors (GPUs) for personal computers to chips for smart phones, tablets, and supercomputers.
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This summer Japan Airlines began installing NFC equipment at its major hubs in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Okinawa, becoming the first airline globally to enable smart phones with NFC chips to act as boarding passes for passengers flying domestically, relieving travellers of the need to fumble with an airline app or the relevant email to find the barcode currently used on mobile boarding passes.
Engineers working in the field of pervasive computing are aiming to create smart fabrics, embedded with computer chips and sensors that will enhance and possibly even save our lives.
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In January of last year, cybersecurity researcher Travis Goodspeed gave a presentation at the S4 conference in Miami where he described a way to bypass encryption on Zigbee wireless chips, which some smart electric metering systems would use to communicate.
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At the time, smart money was pouring into software, chips, radios, glass and genes.
Smart meters, which come with communication chips, collect and send energy use data back to their utilities throughout the day.
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Add to that the chips used in cars, smart toys and other appliances bought or made locally, and China's potential becomes huge.
Technologies including multi-core processor chips, more efficient power supplies and smart cooling systems are already available.
Then there are the little things: the gyroscopes, altimeters, sound chips, and applications processors that make smart phones smart vary from one handset to another.
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Even if the Nasdaq as a whole returned to Earth, smart money would keep searching for innovation in software, chips, radios, glass and genes.
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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Qualcomm's chips have an even broader reach, appearing in smart TVs, game consoles, home automation devices and even cars.
Its wireless networks of chips, sensors and cameras turn ordinary structures into smart buildings that use less energy and are easier to maintain.
The communications processor business includes the IXP family of network and communications chips used in networking products and Intel's Xscale application chips are used in cell phones, handheld computers, and smart phones.
With its new generation of Atom chips, Intel is hoping to spark a boom in the development of smart, pocket-friendly devices.
On Tuesday, MIPS announced it will show off a pair of smart phones and tablets based on its processor architecture based on systems-on-chips from MIPS licensees Actions Semiconductor and Ingenic Semiconductor.
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