21.   A single silicon chip that could both calculate and glow, for example, could slim down laptop computers to the thickness of a credit card.

22.   A prototype design contains a series of tiny magnetic sandwiches placed on a silicon chip between crisscrossing arrays of wires.

23.   A researcher at Intel contends in the journal Science that computer technology is reaching a limit for how small silicon chips can become.

24.   A third of the exports were electronics, including silicon chips, disk drives and printed circuit boards used in computers.

25.   A tray full of bright pink cosmopolitans sloshed past, followed by a serving dish paved with canapes not much bigger than silicon chips.

26.   About three years ago, Whitesides started devising a similar technique for manufacturing silicon chips.

27.   Achieving such manufacturing goals will be difficult because the silicon chip and package must be built up simultaneously instead of being produced separately as they are today.

28.   But Ellenbogen disagrees, pointing to the history of silicon chips.

29.   But can a bucket of bolts and silicon chips ever truly be creative?

30.   Byars said that he expects strained silicon chips to offer performance that compares well to gallium arsenide.