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Topic: Computer chip


  
  Integrated circuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Digital memory chips are another family of integrated circuits that are crucially important in modern society.
The integration of large numbers of tiny transistors onto a small chip was an enormous improvement to the manual assembly of finger-sized vacuum tubes.
Computers, cellular phones, and other digital appliances are now inextricable parts of the structure of modern societies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Computer_chip   (2362 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Computer chip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
An integrated circuit (IC) is a thin chip consisting of at least two interconnected semiconductor devices, mainly transistors, as well as passive components like resistors.
The integrated circuit is one of the most important inventions of the 20th century.
The integrated circuit was first conceived by a radar scientist, Geoffrey W.A. Dummer (born 1909), working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence, and published in Washington DC on May 7, 1952.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Computer-chip   (1846 words)

  
 IBM Think Research | Chip Technology
The nerve center for a computer or pervasive computing device is its integrated circuit — "chip" for short.
Chips perform requested calculations, manage the internal flow of data and handle the data inputs from, and outputs to, the user.
For years, the chip industry has marched in lock step to Moore's Law, the projection that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double every 18 months or so.
www.research.ibm.com /thinkresearch/chip.shtml   (297 words)

  
 Commodore computer history and repair information
Computers were somewhat of an uncertain novelty item which many of the larger electronics and department stores were a little slow to embrace because of the uncertainty and lack of experience in dealing with such products.
The fact that this amazing computer had more memory, a nicer keyboard, and was easier to interface with peripherals than most computers of that era made it so it was and still is (in many ways) an ideal computer for educators, hobbyists, game players, beginning programmers and musicians.
The fact that users of the Commodore computers did not need to constantly reconfigure, re-install, and uninstall software or worry about viruses and system crashes (as is common with our more modern Windows computers) allowed users to spend the majority of their time actually using the computer rather than spending so much time fighting it.
www.oldsoftware.com /history.html   (6072 words)

  
 NU engineers push computer chip limits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Conventional chips consist of a layer of insulation sandwiched between silicon and metal.
Because it retains silicon, the Northwestern chip could prove to be a transition to the next generation of chips.
The Northwestern chip could increase the number of devices on a chip by perhaps a hundredfold beyond the predicted limit of conventional chips, Hersam said.
www.suntimes.com /output/tech/cst-nws-nano12.html   (401 words)

  
 Computer chip building stages to begin
Current computers have processors that operate at speeds of roughly 3 gigahertz, but the new chip will allow computers to pro-cess at speeds close to 10 gigahertz, delivering more than 1 trillion operations per second, researchers said.
Stephen Keckler and Douglas Burger, both computer science assistant professors, said the chip is an innovation in microprocessor architecture and the beginning of the third generation of microprocessors.
Whereas the computer industry usually has hundreds of people working on the development and building of a chip, only a small team of about 30 individuals from the Univer-sity and IBM are working on the TRIPS chip, said Jeff Burns, IBM team leader.
www.cs.utexas.edu /ftp/pub/dburger/press/Daily_Texan-8.29.03.html   (378 words)

  
 Next-generation computer chip to hold 2 engines
And in recent years, chip companies have struggled to keep a lid on power and heat -- the result of some transistor components getting as thin as a few atoms across.
AMD claims its latest chip architecture was developed from the ground up with the move to dual- and multicore chips in mind.
Intel, whose executives once touted plans for 10 gigahertz chips, moved away from its strong focus on clock speed in 2004 -- which for many reasons will be remembered as an annus horribilis for the world's largest chip maker despite record sales and strong profits.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/205282_yechips27.html   (907 words)

  
 Computer Chip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Intel churned out a stronger 486 chip, at a time when other chipmakers were still mired in 386-generation chip production.
It then went on to create the Pentium, which is basically a 586-generation chip with a name that was easier to patent.
The chip became a success on the strength of its use in low-cost personal computers.
www.cincinnati.com /news/chip/html/2.htm   (230 words)

  
 Mechanical Engineering : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The microchannel heat sink is approximately the size of the chip and allows remote heat rejection from a fluid-air heat exchanger (rejector).
K/W is used between the heat sink and the thermal chip in the simulation.
was removed from an Intel thermal chip with a microchannel heat sink attached at the chip backside.
me.stanford.edu /globals/goodson2.html   (999 words)

  
 Faster Computer Chip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chip was sitting on the infield grass, trying to pull the elastic cuffs of his sweat pants over his spiked shoes, when Doctor Conn walked up.
Suddenly Chip was aware that he was in the lab with Doctor Conn. He was staring at the edge of the reflector, but he wasn't in a deep trance as promised.
Chip and Cassie finished their studying and were resting on the couch in front of the TV.
www.gpr-expert.com /jack/compchip.htm   (10103 words)

  
 Computer Chip Enables Paralyzed Man to Take Steps
March 20, 2000 (Brussels, Belgium) -- An implanted computer chip has allowed a 39-year old financial consultant from France to take his first steps since a car crash left him paralyzed him from the waist down 10 years ago.
Marc Merger is the first patient to undergo the implant procedure, which was developed by a consortium of European researchers to help people who have lost the use of their legs.
A demonstration of him walking, scheduled to take place at EU headquarters, had to be postponed because a glitch caused the commands to not be communicated to the computer chip, meaning Merger could not walk.
my.webmd.com /content/article/22/1728_55874   (477 words)

  
 Computer Chip Implants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The technology of computer chips that can be implanted within a living organism is one of the newest concepts today.
A template with the patterns of chip components on it is projected onto the wafer with intense ultraviolet light.
This chip when implanted within a body is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles, and it can be activated either by the person with the implant or by a monitoring facility.
www.faculty.rsu.edu /~clayton/stolusky/paper.htm   (2126 words)

  
 Processor Chips Explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Probably the most important component of a computer to understand and match to your individual needs is the computer’s chip.
A look at the development history of computer chips and an understanding of processor capabilities is a good start in deciding how to select the proper computer chip to suit your needs.
One choice to speed up your computer is to upgrade the existing processor chip of your computer, but this is usually fairly complicated and expensive.
www.compukiss.com /sandyclassroom/tutorials/article773.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Intel Education: IMP: How Chips are Made
Computer chip technology is in all sorts of everyday items, from space shuttles to coffee makers, traffic lights, and computers.
Chips perform various tasks by design, meaning that some are more complex than others.
The most sophisticated chip is a microprocessor, whose transistors can execute hundreds of millions of instructions per second.
www.intel.com /education/makingchips/index.htm   (133 words)

  
 New Scientist Breaking News - Computer chip noise may betray code
The noise emitted by computer chips could help code breakers decipher encrypted messages, according to preliminary research carried out at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
Computer scientists have already demonstrated a variety of different ways of using inadvertent emanations to eavesdrop on computers.
In March 2002, Kuhn demonstrated that indirect light from a computer monitor, reflected on a wall for example, could be used to reconstruct a monitor image.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4979   (449 words)

  
 CHIP (COMPUTER HACKING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)
The new CHIP units are the next phase in the Department's ongoing efforts to combat cybercrime and Intellectual Property theft.
CHIP units will be established in eight cities in addition to San Francisco, where the concept was pioneered.
CHIP units will receive the same high-level training provided by CCIPS, but will also be expected to develop and offer regional training programs to increase expertise among federal, state and local prosecutors.
www.usdoj.gov /criminal/cybercrime/chipfact.htm   (477 words)

  
 Re: How does a computer Chip Work?
First off, I'm assuming that, by computer chip, you are referring to a microprocessor or microcomputer on a single integrated circuit - although some people have used the term "computer chip" to refer to integrated circuits in general.
The information in a computer is stored and operated on (logical and mathematical operations) in digital form - that is, in the form of a set of 1's and 0's.
However, different companies generally have different semiconductor processes (how the computer chips are made), so there might be slight differences in the parts that have tried to be the same.
www.madsci.org /posts/archives/nov99/943816054.Cs.r.html   (619 words)

  
 Researchers Invent Energy-saving Computer Chip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Self-Adjusting Chips To Extend Limits Of Computing Power (August 18, 2000) -- A team of scientists at the University of Rochester is undertaking the next step in computing-designing a chip that reconfigures itself as it runs, adapting to the needs of software while processing...
Chip Design Has Potential As Artificial Retina (April 8, 2002) -- A new type of analog processor that is compact while offering extremely fast computations for image processing could possibly lead to the creation of an artificial eye that has the potential to...
The communications chip was designed by Nguyen, manufactured by CMC (the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation) and tested at the University of Alberta.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/12/041208230144.htm   (596 words)

  
 New computer chip technology could fill production gap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As computer developers come up with machines that process more and more data faster and faster, they push the chip manufacturers closer to the limits of their production technologies.
Because it uses electron beams to "write" the circuits onto the chips, next-generation lithography is about as fundamentally different from current processes as digital is from analog technology.
Thomas explains that, to make a chip wafer, manufacturers currently make a chrome-on-glass mask that is four times the size of the chip they want.
www.ornl.gov /info/ridgelines/chip.htm   (758 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Speedy computer chip for PlayStation near   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The superfast computer chip expected to power Sony's next-generation PlayStation video game system and other cutting-edge consumer electronics will be ready next year, Sony, IBM and Toshiba said Monday.
Although the chip was designed with PlayStation in mind, Sony and Toshiba said they expect to use the chips in other consumer products by 2006, including high-definition televisions and home entertainment servers.
The chip is expected to give the third PlayStation the ability to run games "that look like they were done in a Hollywood studio," says tech analyst Richard Doherty with researcher Envisioneering Group.
www.usatoday.com /tech/products/gear/parts/2004-11-29-cell-to-start_x.htm   (532 words)

  
 V6Z24.com - How-To - Performance computer chip install
The computer is mounted with three 10mm nuts.
Plug the chip and the Memcal into the bay in the computer.
When in place, the aftermarket chip should be inbetween the Memcal and the computer.
www.v6z24.com /howto/chip   (466 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Just a computer chip - about the size of a grain of rice - that would be difficult to remove and tough to mimic.
Those chips were mainly bought by animal owners wanting to provide another way for pound workers to identify a lost pet.
Applied Digital has consulted theologians and appeared on the religious television program the "700 Club" to assure viewers the chip didn't fit the biblical description of the mark because it is under the skin and hidden from view.
www.mercola.com /2002/mar/13/computer_chip.htm   (1056 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Intel scraps desktop, server computer chip plan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Analysts said the move showed how eager the world's largest chip maker was to cut back on the heat its chips generate.
The chips being canceled include the fourth-generation Pentium 4 chip, code-named Tejas, which was to be sold next year, Intel spokeswoman Laura Anderson said.
A single chip that contains the cores of two microprocessors need not run at as high a "clock speed" — a term familiar to PC shoppers as gigahertz or megahertz — in order to crunch data as powerfully.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-05-07-intel-kills-tejas_x.htm   (448 words)

  
 wafer computer chip
The technology could help chip makers attain the degrees of chip density that designers are...
computer chip, manufacturers start with a single crystal of pure silicon, which they slice into thin wafers.
This surrealistic gallery features images of silicon cartoon creatures and other doodles scribbled by chip designers that we have discovered on computer chips while examining them under the microscope.
silicon-wafers.info-1.org /siliconwafers/11/wafer-computer-chip.html   (599 words)

  
 CNN.com - Technology - Professor to wire computer chip into his nervous system - December 14, 2000
Surgeons will connect the chip to his nervous system through nerve fibers in his left arm, and the chip will exchange signals between his brain and a computer.
The main part of the silicon chip consists of a battery, radio transmitter, receiver and processing unit.
The chip sent and received signals, but was not connected to his nervous system.
archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/12/14/robotman.t_t   (771 words)

  
 'Soul Catcher' Computer Chip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A computer chip implanted behind the eye that could record a person's every lifetime thought and sensation is to be developed by British scientists.
Winter's team of eight scientists at BT's Martlesham Heath Laboratories near Ipswich calls the chip the 'Soul Catcher.' It would be possible to imbue a new-born baby with a lifetime's experiences by giving him or her the Soul Catcher chip of a dead person, Dr. Winter said.
He admitted that there were profound ethical considerations, but emphasized that BT was embarking on this line of research to enable it to remain at the forefront of communications technology.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project108.html   (376 words)

  
 Computer, computer chip, macintosh computer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Computer Learning Foundation is an international nonprofit foundation dedicated to helping parents and educators use technology effectively with children.
Founded in 1965, the Department of Computer Science is a center for research and education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The Computer Clubhouse is an after-school learning environment where young people explore their own interests and become confident learners through the use...
www.goldcheese.com /computer.html   (875 words)

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