For Intel, the opportunity lies in the chips that it could sell for sensors, communication equipment and computers to process and display data.
None of this tells us about the other intriguing question, when Apple will bring out its next major overhaul of the Apple TV box (or better.) That answer does not seem to yet be in the chips.
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Motorola hasn't said who among the scores of consumer electronics manufacturers in the radio business is interested in deploying the chips in its next generation of receivers.
It leads in making the chips in communications gear, supplying rivals Cisco and Nortel.
Specifically, volunteers who imagined eating potato chips in the presence of chocolate predicted they would enjoy those chips less than did volunteers who imagined eating chips in the presence of sardines.
Yahoo Japan has been dead money for some time now and the fact it popped, a few months ago, was the time to cash in all the chips no questions asked.
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But when volunteers were asked to eat the chips in the presence of these other foods and to report how much they liked them, those who ate chips in the presence of chocolate enjoyed them every bit as much as did those who ate them in the presence of sardines.
What volunteers had failed to realize was that the comparisons they were making when the chips were in their heads were not the comparisons they would make when the chips were in their mouths.
The carriers say they want to encrypt and store the credentials in the phone's SIM card, the small chips placed in the back of phones to activate access to mobile networks.
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara plan to break that silence with genetically engineered proteins that can make silicon dioxide or titanium dioxide structures like those used in the computer chips and solar cells that we hold dear.
Even if the clock speeds on the Wii U do strike us as quite low, we should realize right away that they must be performing at a much higher efficiency than the chips in the Xbox 360 and PS3 to get performance levels that are basically on par with those systems.
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Shares of SanDisk have been ablaze in the past year, gaining 125% in value as the maker of NAND-based flash memory chips basks in the sweet spot of semiconductors for mobile electronics.
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They put in new windows, redid the electrical systems and replaced the wood chips in front of the house with grass.
Those stand to be among the best performers among the blue chips in the years ahead.
Some of the volunteers were asked to imagine eating the potato chips in the future and to predict how much they would like them.
Intel has a history of being a bellwether for the computer industry in particular, since its chips are used in 80% of all the PCs made globally, and for technology in general since its chips are used in so many other areas of technology.
In the end they did change the world, but only because the bigger the revolution they could create in chips, the bigger the financial success their companies would enjoy.
Another director of BGC, Andrew Teo, who has sat in on the interview, chips in to say that a public float and stock exchange listing is possible.
Whenever the glue of power melts, and power (over the future) is up for grabs, agencies and interests will contend for it, seeking to win absolutely while the chips are in the aire, or to be in the best pre-pax position when they fall.
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While AMD sales have steadily declined for the last five consecutive quarters, the HP deal gives more credence to the use of AMD chips in the corporate world.
The company added that prices for microprocessors have fallen 42.4% t in the last seven years--evidence, it argued, that competition in the market for chips is benefiting consumers.
The rest of the Asia-Pacific region managed a 1.3% expansion, and in Europe - where the use of chips in consumer electronics and cars outweighs computer use - sales were up 5.8%.
No single customer represented more than 10% of those sales--meaning Merck could well be the largest consumer of DNA chips in the world.
The company shipped 118 million CDMA chips in the quarter, up 28% from last year and 6% from the September quarter.
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The Bristol team's approach makes use of waveguides - channels etched into the chips that provide a path for the photons around the chips like the minuscule wires in conventional electronics.
He built the business into a colossus and himself into a multimillionaire with a bright red Ferrari, though for much of that time he was the unknown man eating egg and chips in the lorry park, with oily hands from all that cleaning.
This iteration seems more compelling in the sense that the chips can monitor grid conditions directly and minimizes the impact on consumer by reducing power consumption in more nuanced ways.
He notes that Research In Motion had already passed on using Marvell chips in the PlayBook tablet, choosing instead a Texas Instruments (TXN) part.
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Jurvetson had his first brush with nano in 1989 while working on his master's in electrical engineering at Stanford University and designing chips in the summers at Hewlett-Packard.
In the real world, this could eventually mean that most chemical experiments are conducted inside the silicon of chips instead of in the glassware of laboratories.
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