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Integrated circuit or small wafer of semiconductor material embedded with integrated circuitry. Chips comprise the processing and memory units of the modern digital computer (see microprocessor; RAM). Chip making is extremely precise and is usually done in a “clean room,” since even microscopic contamination could render the chip defective. As transistor components have shrunk, the number per chip has doubled about every 18 months (a phenomenon known as Moore's law), from a few thousand in 1971 (Intel Corp.'s first chip) to millions by 1989. Nanotechnology is expected to make transistors even smaller and chips correspondingly more powerful in the 21st century.

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New technologies will be needed for industry to keep pace with Moore's law, an unofficial rule stating that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every 18 months, resulting in rapid progress in computers and telecommunications.

Finlike design can create smaller transistors and powerful computer ... by Asian News International

The European Commission on Monday published e-mails and other company records to back a record-busting anti-trust action against Intel, which the US computer chip giant is contesting.

EU publishes e-mails to back case against Intel by AFP / AFP Global Edition

This fact on its own is perhaps at best nothing more than pure coincidence but where that event turns decidedly strange is how that very Mercedes was returned a few days earlier in pristine condition save for one very important aspect The onboard computer chip controls, amongst other things, navigation, acceleration, steering and braking of a vehicle.

Princess Dianas Death Why Was He Omputer Chip Stolen from Car ... by sandeep bhakar / Advertising, marketing, public relations community

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