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Articles about chips: December 4, 2008

Intel to manufature small-size, high-capacity flash memory

by Shawn Ingram on Nov 24, 2008 at 02:15 PM

Intel LogoIt seems fairly obvious by now that NAND flash memory is slowly overtaking hard drive based memory.  With new chips from Intel and Micron, it just came a step closer.  The two companies have been working together on flash memory and have announced that they are mass producing standard 300mm chips with 32Gb of storage space.  Continued after the break.

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Watch out Intel, the Snapdragon is here and it’s biting

by Jodie Andrefski on Jul 1, 2008 at 03:27 PM

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We’ve all seen it happen time and time again. What was hot and happening even six months ago, is suddenly a dinosaur. It’s the nature of the ever-evolving technology game. Which is why industry giant Intel may just be well served by sitting up and taking note that the maker of cell-phone chips Qualcomm, just may be a major force to be reckoned with these days. 

With a latest innovation, the Snapdragon, Qualcomm packs a rather mighty punch in a tiny package. An engineer for the company demonstrated a palm-sized circuit board capable of displaying high-definition video. While a fairly high quality video image is nothing new to write home about, what did make it pretty special was it’s microprocessor chip, the Snapdragon. This micro-chip drives the display with less than half the power of a similar chip recently introduced by Intel. Qualcomm designers further sweeten the deal by saying that it will also cost less.

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Intel introduces low-power processors for low-cost PCs

by Arnold Zafra on Mar 4, 2008 at 01:46 AM

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Intel announced a new family of low-power processors that will run its low-cost PCs and mobile internet devices (MIDs). Branded as Intel Atom, this new processor will be based on a new Intel microarchitecture designed specifically for small devices and runs on low power. Despite its size the new process still has the same Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set compatibility which consumers have grown accustomed to in their PC and the internet.

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Smallest Bible in the World?

by Chris Marshall on Dec 28, 2007 at 12:31 AM

smallest bible

Using a technology called Focussed Ion Beam, and with the objective of increasing the awareness and interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology in the young, researches in Israel have squeezed at 300,000 word version of the Bible into a silicon chip measuring 0.5sq-mm.

If you really want to know how they do it Ohad Zohar the project manager can explain: “When we send the particle beam toward a point on the surface, the gold atoms bounce off of this point, thus exposing the silicon layer underneath.“

Not content with this pretty amazing feet, the next step is actually pretty cool in that they are going to photograph the entire Bible and display it as a 7m x 7m picture which means that people will be able to read the bible (well if you read Hebrew that is) without any visual aids. Next to this picture they will display the nano bible, which is about the size of a grain of sugar. This I reckon would be a pretty cool thing to see.

Via [BBC]

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