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silicon chip

A wafer of silicon with transistors and electronic microcircuitry etched on its surface, forming the highway on which data travels in a microprocessor.

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Future graphene-chip technologies, meanwhile, could borrow many of the methods already used for creating silicon chips. Chip production uses a top-down approach, which starts with large sheets of crystalline silicon and uses sophisticated lithography techniques to etch circuitry into them.

Electron superhighway: can graphene overtake silicon as the essential ingredient of computer chips?

For some years now, scientists have managed to achieve a steady increase in the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto one silicon chip. The typical rate of increase has been a factor of ten every three years.

PERSPECTIVE: Beyond the silicon valley to nanoland; Just as man once passed through the stone, bronze and iron ages, he may now be approaching the era of materials engineered at an atomic scale, says Steven Cutts

MEMS are made up of mechanical microstructures, sensors, actuators and microelectronics integrated together in the sealed environment of a silicon chip. Though they essentially mimic the workings of their larger predecessors, because the scale of the components is so tiny the response time to inputs is almost immediate.

Electronic technologies to watch: diodes that convert waste heat into electricity, cheap computer chips printed like newspapers, and electromechanical devices that fit on the head of a pin. All of these technologies are in the works and targeted at the automobile, so you should pay attention to them now

"We are very pleased that SafeNet, one of the leading expert security companies in the world, has chosen MultiPrime technology for use in SafeXcel silicon chips to secure and accelerate wireless transactions," said Gary Lefkowitz, director of marketing for Compaq Atalla Security Products.

SAFENET AND COMPAQ COMPUTER JOIN FORCES TO SECURE WIRELESS TRANSACTIONS

Why should a postal service, reliant on the visible written word, indulge itself with faddish lovers of invisible marks on silicon chips and superfluous electronic communicational devices?

Pen is mightier

HP's patented process could help create microchips as powerful as next-generation silicon chips, but 1,000 times smaller and less expensive.

It's a major breakthrough in the world of tiny switches. (Tech Briefs)

The receivers in use now typically have 10 to 20 GaAs chips compared to only three of the new silicon chips. Lucent claims the new system is 100 times smaller at a cost savings of 10 to 100 times and will have the effect of improving quality and lessening the cost of wireless networks.

New All-silicon Chips for Wireless Base Stations

Steel blades reduce plastics, metal, rubber, paper, CD-ROMs, data cartridges, silicon chips, Tyvek, and Mylar into confetti-sized particles.

High-volume disintegrators

The planar waveguide process involves placing glass fibres on silicon chips in order to provide pathways capable of routing a light signal between fiber optic strands.

Implementing Planar Waveguide Technology

One key element of our conversation was the use of silicon chips. Chips, he explained, had been embedded in employee identification tags at his company.

Body of Technology

The breakthrough could see silicon chips replaced by bio-organisms capable of storing mind-boggling amounts of information.

Scientists to perfect the'living' computer

The division of Philips Electronics NV, Europe's largest semiconductor manufacturer, says that its new EZ-HV process allows the simpler integration of high-voltage (HV) and low-voltage analog and digital circuitry on silicon chips. Philips says that the difference between the EZ-HV process and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) techniques pioneered by IBM Corp, is that SOI chips with high voltage transistors need a thick layer of silicon to guarnatee insulation.