Lieber and others are trying to turn molecules into useful systems, from sensors to integrated circuits.
Microchip packaging and testing is the obscure but vital business of wrapping and wiring integrated circuits.
Laser emission is far more efficient, and thus more likely to be useful in integrated circuits.
TI's advanced receiver and transmitter integrated circuits, design tools and resources are making wireless power a reality.
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Meanwhile, high-tech exports such as electronic integrated circuits and phones jumped 64 percent and 21 percent, respectively.
Alongside the development of silicon computer chips (integrated circuits to many of us) there was a companion revolution.
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As a maker of integrated circuits--a business Corning did not understand--its products were sometimes obsolete before they were ever manufactured.
Making the conversion with integrated circuits is much more efficient, with as little as 20% of the power being lost.
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Exar, a semiconductor company, designs, develops and markets analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for use in communications, video and imaging products.
It counts Microsoft, Apple and Sony among its clients for integrated circuits.
Another 35% of sales derive from high-voltage integrated circuits that go into ultrasound imaging equipment made by General Electric, Philips and Siemens.
This glass specialist had no research, manufacturing, or marketing expertise in integrated circuits, and so, no base for competing with those who did.
"It provides a recipe for delivering all sorts of advanced technologies, such as full integrated circuits down in the brain, " Dr. Rogers said.
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Moreover, in fields like solar cells, travelling-wave tubes and read-out integrated circuits, there is either only one domestic supplier or a financially weak supplier.
Most electronics are made in the form of integrated circuits, which are tiny chips that contain transistors and other components etched onto silicon wafers.
Its products include integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers.
For example, when coupled with Freescale's new Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs), the standby power for the newest Atom chip is 98% lower than the original.
He wanted to make sure his workers kept up a comprehensive knowledge base, so when the Japanese offered to sell him integrated circuits at half price, he refused.
The company was the first to manufacture integrated circuits, which made millions for Sherman Fairchild and became the breeding ground for companies ranging from National Semiconductor to Sequoia Capital.
Selling high-end integrated circuits, amplifiers and switchers to telecom equipment hubs in the late 1990s, it stumbled before the tech implosion of 2000, with its profits dropping 40% in 1998.
Over the centuries, we have applied some of the ingenuity used to analyze data about nature to building things that calculate data, whether organizations of human computers or machines of integrated circuits.
Hittite Microwave, a maker of integrated circuits and other high-tech devices, has enjoyed a steady increase in EPS for the last five years, carries no debt and has had strong earnings growth.
Vacuum tubes have been eclipsed by integrated circuits.
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ViaSat also offers design capabilities and a number of complementary products including monolithic microwave integrated circuits and modules, DVB-S2 satellite communication components, video data link systems, data acceleration and compression, and mobile satellite antenna systems.
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If MEMS were integrated circuits, this would be 1968: hundreds of small companies chasing new technology, but no dominant player yet no MEMS Intel or Motorola to rise above the pack and give the industry an identity.
Bush's essay was written more than 15 years before scientists patented the first integrated circuits, so the device he envisioned stored content on "improved microfilm" and allowed for direct data entry using a dry photography system.
The engineers next demonstrated the possibilities of their techniques by creating the essential components of digital integrated systems: arithmetic circuits and sequential storage, as well as the first monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuits with extreme levels of integration.
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It took exactly two stops before we got to the first soccer-themed demonstration: the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits showed off the advantages of embedding chips in soccer balls, along with the shoes of the players.
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The Stanford team's work was featured recently as an invited paper at the prestigious International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) as well as a "keynote paper" in the highly regarded IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
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