Now comes the tantalizing possibility of combining speed and versatility on a single chip.
Meanwhile mixed signal devices proliferate with both analog and digital components on a single chip.
Once stand-alone devices are feasible, Quake hopes to combine them into a single chip.
Repeating the necessary accuracy, millions of times across a single chip, may be impossible.
Sharp's chosen to focus on creating an affordable 1080p home projector, rolling out the single chip DLP-based XV-Z15000.
The company announced the industry's first quad-combo to integrate certified NFC, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and FM onto a single chip.
But, the rumors were that Qualcomm had some issues integrating both GSM and CDMA standards onto a single chip.
What used to be a five-chip solution has been whittled down to a single chip produced by Texas Instruments ( TXN).
He says that with so many devices around, the value of having a powerful computer on a single chip has diminished.
Work will go faster still when an entire chemistry lab fits onto a single chip, such as the one the folks at Orchid are developing.
The single chip reduces power consumption by about 20% during both communication and stand-by, as well as decreases the production cost for mobile devices.
But squeeze several million of them onto a single chip and you get the flickering of intelligence a chip that could beat a human at chess.
By carefully controlling its properties, he could turn a single chip of semiconductor into resistors, capacitors and transistors connected in any way he liked.
The design, which combines a CPU and modem on a single chip, is more affordable, efficient and compact than systems that use two chips, said Lin.
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The plan is to lure away television manufacturers with a single chip that can do many of the things now handled by a grab bag of pricey parts.
With 4.8 billion transistors on a single chip, Trident II is optimized for software-defined networks and cloud-scale data centers, supporting tens of thousands of servers and virtual machines.
Scala programs apportion parallel computing tasks among everything from the different computing cores on a single chip, to the different servers in a data center, to different data centers.
The DuoSense single-chip solution is the first single-chip on the market to support both pen and multi-touch input for mobile computing, allowing for easier integration and flexibility in thinner and slimmer computing designs.
Sandbridge Technologies' SB3010 chips are flexible enough to handle a wide range of protocols, multimedia and application processing, which would enable handset makers to built multifunction handsets using a single chip, driving costs down.
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Mr Joy says that his new design, which turns a single chip into a parallel-processing system, can handle huge amounts of video and audio data at speeds that would overwhelm the usual Intel chip.
Although those first prototypes will have storage roughly equivalent to NAND flash at tens of gigs per circuit, the plan is to rapidly scale up to 100s of gigs and finally to 1TB on a single chip.
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The Archer module consists of the UltraGig 6400 single chip transmitter with its intelligent beam-forming 60GHz RF transceiver, embedded antenna array, and WirelessHD 1.1 compliant network processor as well as all necessary external components on a single, flex- print cable module.
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The alphabet soup of different flash memory technologies is already a little bewildering, but it looks like the latest entrant could end up being the most promising of all, with single chip storage capacities of 1TB expected within ten years.
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Using Intel's "dual core" technology, in which computations are done within two "brains" on a single chip, Otellini predicted that next year notebooks would run at five watts, desktops at 65 watts and servers at 80 watts--a drop from today's wattage.
"We're the only company now in the industry that has intellectual property in both of those main technologies, " Prairie said, pointing to the company's recently launched mobile system and said that eventually, the company plans on integrating the technologies into a single chip.
It incorporates Creative's innovative patented Quartet digital signal processor (DSP) with four independent processor cores, and is the first processor to integrate an array of DSP cores with high-quality HD audio codecs of over 100dB on a single chip, giving it tremendous versatility for PC and embedded configurations.
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While competing solutions require either two sensors or multiple chips to support pen and multi-touch, N-trig is the first company to offer both on a single chip and a single sensor, providing device manufacturers with a compact, low-power solution and paving the way for N-trig to enter the handheld market.
Last week Texas Instruments, led by Chief Executive RichardTempletonRichard Templeton, unveiled its mobile TV chip codenamed "Hollywood, " and said it had begun shipping the single-chip DTV solution to cellular manufacturers to begin putting in phones late this year.
Of course others like Wi2Wi, have integrated the Marvell WiFi die with Bluetooth for their own single-chip solutions.
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