By services Mitchell means anything beyond matching suppliers with customers--such as providing financing, on-site inventory management, parts-tracking software and chip programming.
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"It's a case of 'if the software asks the chip to do something it does it at any cost, '" he said.
"It's a great thing for the marketplace to see competition around a great design, " said Rob Chandhok, who heads software strategy for chip maker Qualcomm Inc.
The idea is to embed a sliver of Java software in the chip brains of devices such as printers, digital cameras, mobile telephones and television set-top boxes.
In 2004 Marvell licensed chip designs and software to a firm called Alliant Networks that was designing a chip to handle both cellular and Wi-Fi signals.
While both Opteron and Itanium ran newer 64-bit software, AMD's chip was also backward-compatible, enabling it to run software written for older 32-bit processors.
Also like some others in our industry, our business benefits from the growth of the market for system-level design, which is outpacing the market for chip design software.
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All around were scores of the other chip designers, software firms, venture capitalists, and hardware-makers.
Chip-design software company Synopsys this afternoon posted better-than-expected financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended January 31.
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The company's engineers are confident that their modified chip-design software will allow previously flat circuits to be wrapped around the surface of a sphere.
With new chip-based software, Nortel enables a cheaper semiconductor device to perform the function of a small Internet router, supplanting costly hardware of the sort Cisco sells.
Sonaptic offers its technology on a chip or in software and is about to release a new version which significantly improves the efficiency of the audio processing.
Bob Brodersen of the University of California, in Berkeley, has calculated that moving an application from a general-purpose software implementation to a specialised chip can improve efficiency by a factor of 10, 000 (the efficiency metric being millions of calculations per milliwatt of power consumed).
Splitting the operation of the chip into hardware and software components has other advantages.
We create our own A4 chip, our own software, our own battery chemistry, our own enclosure, our own everything.
Some compared the combination of a chip maker and a security software company to the disjointed conglomerates of old.
And new software from Microsoft and the blazing Itanium chip from Intel should ignite a technology buying cycle by November.
Vance Rowland, president of AOneATM, says few of his company's 3, 000 ATMs will meet the deadline because there is still uncertainty about some of the software that is required to accept the chip-based transactions.
Equipment and software sales were strong, led by chip makers like Texas Instruments and Xerox, which gained 2% in its third quarter after a 52% decline in 2009, leaving the remaining GDP sectors to find their pace.
This list includes beleaguered chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, software giant Autodesk, and its own supplier BMC Software.
After downloading software from its Web site and activating the chip, it can be used to set up passwords for individual files as well as to encrypt selected files.
Software run off a built-in computer chip then makes about 6, 000 adjustments a second to maintain optimum efficiency, and the unit is mounted on springs to prevent vibrations being passed on to the rest of the equipment.
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In another domain, not far away from the chip and fiber-optics factories, software writers cooked up clever uses for the new powers.
With 4.8 billion transistors on a single chip, Trident II is optimized for software-defined networks and cloud-scale data centers, supporting tens of thousands of servers and virtual machines.
However, the main perceived hurdle that has kept large, blue-chip companies like GM away from cloud-software is security.
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Transmeta's biggest weapon against Intel is its technology, which uses software to take some of the power demands off the chip and automatically adjusts performance to the requirements of particular applications.
The software obviously remains the same besides new trackpad options, graphics chip switching, and other minor changes (that we've seen so far), though there are some odd tweaks.
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Some of the world's biggest companies suffered huge falls this week, with Dell Computers down 28% for the week, leading computer chip maker Intel down 20%, and leading software makers Sun Microsystems and Oracle all dropping by more than 15% - losing billions of dollars in value.
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